tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040959712765757212019-05-25T14:15:58.852+01:00Landed families of Britain and IrelandIn this blog I present the results of my research into the landowning families of the British Isles and the country houses which they owned. Comments, especially in the form of corrections, additional information or new illustrations, are very welcome. Please use the Contact Form in the right hand side bar to contact me privately or the comments facility at the bottom of the page to make a public comment.Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.comBlogger353125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-69243313436471616372019-05-14T14:31:00.002+01:002019-05-14T15:47:33.361+01:00(376) Baring of Norman Court<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EWXbNe9njlQ/XNWmQgdA2KI/AAAAAAAAMVw/Drt2_ec9ruM6apvL8tEzP4qocxSnNWX4ACLcBGAs/s1600/Baring%2Bof%2BNorman%2BCourt.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EWXbNe9njlQ/XNWmQgdA2KI/AAAAAAAAMVw/Drt2_ec9ruM6apvL8tEzP4qocxSnNWX4ACLcBGAs/s200/Baring%2Bof%2BNorman%2BCourt.PNG" width="173" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baring of Norman Court</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This is the third of five posts about the various branches of the Baring family. For an introduction showing how they connect, please see the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/04/374-baring-of-howick-barons-howick-of.html" style="background-color: white; color: #7c93a1; text-decoration-line: none;">first post</a>&nbsp;in the sequence<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Harriet Baring was the first born child of Sir Francis Baring (1740-1810), 1st bt., the founder of Barings Bank and Chairman of the East India Company [for whom see my forthcoming post on the Barings of Stratton Park].&nbsp; In 1790 she married Charles Wall (1756-1815), the son of a lawyer, who had become her father's junior partner in 1781 and who played an increasingly important role in running the Bank. By 1810, Wall owned the largest share of the Bank's capital, valued at £86,126. It is therefore hardly surprising that he was in a position to buy both Norman Court, in 1806, and Albury Park (Surrey), in 1811, and to ask George Dance to prepare schemes for remodelling or rebuilding Norman Court, although in the event, nothing was done before Wall's death in 1815. He left Albury Park to Harriet (who sold it to Henry Drummond when she moved to Everton in Hampshire in 1819), while Norman Court and a cash inheritance of around £125,000 passed directly to his son,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Charles Baring Wall (1795-1853), who carried out the intended remodelling in 1818-20. With his inherited wealth and landed estate, C.B. Wall had no need to pursue a career in business, and he was able to devote himself to his twin interests in art and politics, sitting as an MP continuously from 1819 until his death in 1853, and building a notable art collection. His sexual preferences meant that he was unmarried and without issue, and at his death he bequeathed Norman Court to his cousin, Thomas Baring (1799-1873), the second son of Sir Thomas Baring (1772-1848), 2nd bt. of Stratton Park, who was a partner in Barings Bank from 1828 and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">one of the senior partners from 1837.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Like Wall, Tom Baring was a long-serving MP, but the efforts of successive Prime Ministers to persuade him to take ministerial office were unavailing: however much his country needed him, Barings came first. If he was married to the Bank, however, he was not married to anyone else, and a second successive owner of Norman Court died childless in 1873. He left the house (and a fortune of some £300,000) to his cousin, William Henry Baring (1819-1906), who was the only son of Sir Francis Baring's fourth son, William (1779-1820), who rented Lulworth Castle in Dorset and died in a yachting accident off the Isle of Wight when his son was an infant. After a fairly brief career in the army, W.H. Baring seems to have settled in London until he came into his inheritance, after which he lived at Norman Court in some style. Doing so at a time of declining profitability in farming may account for his wealth at death being a comparatively modest £84,874; he may also have helped to pay off the debts of his son-in-law, Col. FitzGeorge, who was bankrupted in 1902. Norman Court passed in 1906 to his son, Maj. Francis Charles Baring (1852-1926), who perhaps felt that he did not have sufficient income to support such a large estate. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YbIA2DkLi_M/XNqYFM41XmI/AAAAAAAAMWA/F3N5iTJqqGomwvxWqC9NjevkchGBZAdLQCLcBGAs/s1600/Timsbury%2BManor%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="861" height="256" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YbIA2DkLi_M/XNqYFM41XmI/AAAAAAAAMWA/F3N5iTJqqGomwvxWqC9NjevkchGBZAdLQCLcBGAs/s400/Timsbury%2BManor%2B1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Timsbury Manor, owned by F.C. Baring from 1909-20.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>At all events, he sold it later the same year to Washington Singer (1866-1934), one of the many children of the American sewing machine manufacturer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Singer">Isaac Singer</a>, and in 1909 bought himself a much smaller property at Timsbury Manor near Romsey (Hants). This was a red brick neo-Jacobean house, built for the Dutton family in about 1851, probably by the Winchester diocesan architect, John Colson, and it does in fact look much like a Victorian rectory. Soon after the First World War he sold this house too, and he spent the last years of his life in London. He was the last of this branch of the family to own a country house.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Norman Court, West Tytherley, Hampshire</span></b></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The estate traces its origins to a small manor, originally of about 120 acres, which is first identifiable in the 13th century. It derives its name from Roger Norman, a 14th century owner, and subsequently passed to the Whitehead family, who owned it from the 15th century until 1733. Their manor house stood about half a mile south of the present Norman Court, close to the later site of the kitchen garden. It was evidently on a considerable scale, although no visual evidence of its appearance seems to survive, and it was pulled down in about 1752, when the Rev. Dr. Robert Thistlethwayte built a smaller shooting box on the site of the present house. This building faced north and consisted of a five by five bay central block of two storeys above a basement, linked by quadrant wings to two-storey office ranges with courtyards behind. Again, there is no visual record of the house at this time, but a survey plan among the papers of George Dance in the Soane Museum makes clear that its structure forms the core of the present building, including the canted bay on the entrance front.&nbsp; In 1815 the accommodation comprised an entrance hall with the staircase rising out of it, a breakfast room, dining room, drawing room, and gentleman's morning room; on the first floor, there was a ladies' apartment, three bed rooms and dressing-rooms; and on the second floor, five further bedrooms.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AW_ZzPS3RHA/XNWSNSNtw_I/AAAAAAAAMVQ/NqRD92YRVukQX96U5S0lLZKuGYZU75poQCLcBGAs/s1600/Normancourt%2BHouse%2B1a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="1013" height="288" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AW_ZzPS3RHA/XNWSNSNtw_I/AAAAAAAAMVQ/NqRD92YRVukQX96U5S0lLZKuGYZU75poQCLcBGAs/s640/Normancourt%2BHouse%2B1a.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Norman Court: an engraving of 1833 showing the house as enlarged by Henry Harrison in 1818-20.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1810, Charles Wall asked George Dance (who had rebuilt Stratton Park (Hants) for his wife's family in 1804-06), to prepare plans for remodelling the house. Dance's surviving drawings in the Soane Museum suggest that various schemes for enlargement and a complete rebuilding were considered, but in the end nothing was done before Wall's death in 1815. Humphry Repton was also consulted on the landscaping of the site, but only some estate cottages are known to have been completed to his designs. Charles Wall's son and successor, Charles Baring Wall, turned to a younger architect, and the house was eventually enlarged in 1818-20 to the designs of Henry Harrison. He added two-bay wings either side of the central block, stuccoed the south, east and west fronts in a mildly Grecian style, made a new entrance with a Doric portico in antis in the north-east corner, and built a large glazed conservatory linked to the south-west corner by a glazed corridor. The main rooms were arranged along the south front; behind the tripartite windows in the new wings were a library and dining room (from which the conservatory opened, suggesting it was intended to be used as a smoking room), while the rooms in the older centre of the house were adapted as a billiard room and ante room. A new staircase was provided in the north-west corner of the house, and survives today, with closely-set cast iron balusters of Greek key pattern.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VuNCCbrhDdw/XNWTrCXUSQI/AAAAAAAAMVg/rLtteb4voeA7X4okieaurgT-YZMeZxW9ACLcBGAs/s1600/Normancourt%2BHouse%2B7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VuNCCbrhDdw/XNWTrCXUSQI/AAAAAAAAMVg/rLtteb4voeA7X4okieaurgT-YZMeZxW9ACLcBGAs/s640/Normancourt%2BHouse%2B7.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Norman Court: the north front as altered in the later 19th century.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_wQaSPXJI3k/XNWSoz3F1EI/AAAAAAAAMVY/4qHK8e5qau8ujYao6O9BSlaqilfluXZOACLcBGAs/s1600/Normancourt%2BHouse%2B6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="1576" height="406" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_wQaSPXJI3k/XNWSoz3F1EI/AAAAAAAAMVY/4qHK8e5qau8ujYao6O9BSlaqilfluXZOACLcBGAs/s640/Normancourt%2BHouse%2B6.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Norman Court: the south front as altered for Washington Singer in 1906.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The only significant change to the house by subsequent generations of the Baring family seems to have been the addition of neo-Palladian angle towers to the north front, and perhaps its general refacing in red brick. It is not clear when this was done, but the distinctive pyramidal cap of one of the towers is visible in a late 19th century photograph of the house from the south-west. This shows that the towers had been completed before the next phase of work, which was carried out soon after the house was sold in 1906 to&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Washington Singer, son of the multi-millionaire American sewing machine manufacturer and serial adulterer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Singer">Isaac Singer</a>.&nbsp; He made many sadly poorly-documented changes. The most significant ones are the addition of Ionic pilasters to Harrison's stuccoed fronts, rather successfully imitating the style of the earlier work. Singer also returned the main entrance to the north front and replaced the original conservatory and the corridor linking it to the house with a larger but very similar conservatory built out directly from the side of the house.&nbsp; These were the last substantive changes to the building; t</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">he house became a preparatory school in 1952 and after this closed in 2012, it has been further adapted as a Montessori day nursery and outdoor pursuits centre.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HS86U8Jp2Ro/XNWUPYoOVNI/AAAAAAAAMVo/4ck_89CA9JcAxvqV-1WcEwAP7Zw1d2NUQCLcBGAs/s1600/Normancourt%2BHouse%2B14%2BTaylor%2B1759.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="601" height="261" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HS86U8Jp2Ro/XNWUPYoOVNI/AAAAAAAAMVo/4ck_89CA9JcAxvqV-1WcEwAP7Zw1d2NUQCLcBGAs/s320/Normancourt%2BHouse%2B14%2BTaylor%2B1759.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Norman Court: detail of Taylor's map of 1759, showing<br />the avenue to the north of the house.</td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The house was originally entered from the north, and Taylor's map of Hampshire in 1759 shows an avenue to the north of the house, aligned on the house. This seems to have disappeared before the house was sold in 1806, and the present entrance from the east was no doubt created when the entrance was moved to the east side of the house in 1820.&nbsp;</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: Richard Whitehead; to son, Sir Henry Whitehead (1574-1629); to son, Richard Whitehead (c.1594-c.1662); to son, Henry Whitehead (c.1629-84); to son, Richard Whitehead (c.1660-1733); to nephew, Francis Thistlethwayte (b. 1719); to brother, Rev. Dr. Robert Thistlethwayte (1720-67); to son, Robert Thistlethwayte (1755-1802); to son, Thomas Thistlethwayte (1779-1850), who sold 1807 to Charles Wall (1756- 1815); to son, Charles Baring Wall (1795-1853); to cousin, Thomas Baring (1799-1873); to cousin, William Henry Baring (1819-1906); to son, Francis Charles Baring (1852-1926), who sold c.1906 to Washington Merritt Grant Singer (1866-1934); to son, Grant Singer (d. 1942); sold 1946; sold 1949; ?sold 1952 to Northaw School (later Norman Court Preparatory School), which closed 2012; sold to Norman Court Montessori CIC, which operates it as a nursery school and outdoor pursuits centre.</i></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Baring family of Norman Court</span></b></h3><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dTUGkMaVHFg/XNqhJSGLocI/AAAAAAAAMWI/JlMZlOG0DAUC6EvCXsr_gWeySuZKwJ0yACLcBGAs/s1600/Wall%252C%2BHarriet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="320" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dTUGkMaVHFg/XNqhJSGLocI/AAAAAAAAMWI/JlMZlOG0DAUC6EvCXsr_gWeySuZKwJ0yACLcBGAs/s200/Wall%252C%2BHarriet.jpg" width="156" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mrs. Harriet Wall (1768-1838)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, Harriet (1768-1838). </b>Eldest daughter of Sir Francis Baring (1740-1810), 1st </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">bt., founder of Barings Bank and Chairman of the East India Company,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and his wife Harriet (1750-1804), daughter and co-heir of William Herring of Croydon (Surrey), born in London, 13 September&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">1768 and baptised at All Hallows by the Tower, London, 10 October 1768. Educated privately. By about 1810 she was attracted to evangelical religion, and became one of the founders, with her brother George, of the Western Schism from the Church of England; in the 1820s, she drifted into the circle of the Scottish evangelical, Edward Irvingite, and joined his movement (later the Catholic Apostolic Church).&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Described by contemporaries having inherited a 'dexterous intelligence' and a 'cool temperament' from her father, she held 'an obvious superiority over the heated brains and crude notions of her mostly male disciples'. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">She married, 1 September 1790 at Beddington (Surrey), Charles Wall (1756-1815), a partner in Barings Bank, 1778-1815, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Charles Baring Wall (1795-1853) (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Her husband bought Norman Court in 1806 and Albury Park (Surrey) in 1811. They also had a house in London. After her husband's death she moved to Everton near Lymington (Hants).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">She died 5 March 1838; her will was proved in the PCC, 4 April 1838. Her husband died 6 May, and was buried at Albury, 12 May 1815; his will was proved in the PCC, 10 July 1815.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GT_dxTvIr4A/XNqkY4MniCI/AAAAAAAAMWQ/znIyBAWywMcFHlHbrOkRbl4dX9QTKLUtgCLcBGAs/s1600/Wall%252C%2BCharles%2BBaring%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="298" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GT_dxTvIr4A/XNqkY4MniCI/AAAAAAAAMWQ/znIyBAWywMcFHlHbrOkRbl4dX9QTKLUtgCLcBGAs/s200/Wall%252C%2BCharles%2BBaring%2B2.jpg" width="168" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Baring Wall as a boy<br />by Sir Thomas Lawrence</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Wall, Charles Baring (1795-1853). </b>Son of Charles Wall (1756-1815) and his wife Harriet, eldest daughter of Sir Francis Baring, 1st bt., born 30 March and baptised at St Peter-le-Poer, London, 1 May 1795. Educated privately and then at Eton (from 1811) and Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1818; BA 1818; MA 1821); he undertook a Grand Tour of Europe in 1815. After the death of his father, he</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> lived the life of a fashionable aesthete, using his inheritance to pursue his interest in fine art and career in politics. He was&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">MP for Guildford, 1819-26, 1830-31, 1832-47 and for Wareham, 1826-30, Weymouth &amp; Melcombe Regis, 1831-32 and Salisbury, 1847-53; he sat initially in the Tory interest and opposed the Reform Bill, but in 1846 he changed sides and became a Liberal. It was apparent to contemporaries that his predilections&nbsp;were homosexual, and references in his correspondence suggest that he was particularly drawn to men in uniform. In 1833 he was accused of indecently assaulting a metropolitan police officer, but produced a string of character witnesses who ensured that he was acquitted, and he seems not to have been socially ostracized.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He was unmarried and without issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Norman Court with around £125,000 from his father and remodelled it in 1818-20. At his death it passed in accordance with his mother's wish to his cousin, Thomas Baring. His London town house was 44 Berkeley Square, the surviving William Kent house with perhaps the most beautiful staircase in London.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 14 October 1853; his will was proved in the PCC, 27 November 1853 (wealth at death estimated between £350,000 and £450,000).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s29mAdNVybI/XNlDsnqbBPI/AAAAAAAAMV4/_vbZ-qqcqo8UYheqW9hsy39nQUvhthK1QCLcBGAs/s1600/Baring%252C%2BThomas%2B1799-1873.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1131" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s29mAdNVybI/XNlDsnqbBPI/AAAAAAAAMV4/_vbZ-qqcqo8UYheqW9hsy39nQUvhthK1QCLcBGAs/s200/Baring%252C%2BThomas%2B1799-1873.jpg" width="141" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomas Baring (1799-1873)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, Thomas (1799-1873). </b>Second son of Sir Thomas Baring (1772-1848), 2nd bt., and his wife Mary Ursula, daughter of Charles Sealy of Calcutta, barrister, born 7 September 1799. Educated at Winchester College. Partner in Baring Bros. &amp; Co from 1828 (and one of two senior partners from 1837); a director of the Bank of England and of the East and West India Dock Companies; Chairman of Lloyds of London for nearly forty years. Conservative MP for Great Yarmouth, 1835-37 and Huntingdon, 1844-73, and unsuccessfully contested the City of London in 1843. He was several times offered the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer, but turned it down, preferring to remain active in business to scaling the political heights, but he was still much in demand as a member or chairman of committees, and his efforts to balance the competing demands of parliament and the firm took a toll on his health. He served as a member of the Neutrality Law Commission (report 1868) and as a member of Lieutenancy Commission for the City of London. He was a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Georgraphical Society. He took a strong interest in education and was President of the Stockbridge School Managers and Teachers' Association until his death. In private life, he was a collector of pictures and a patron of artists, amassing a collection valued at around £100,000. He was unmarried and without issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Norman Court with 7,000 acres and some £400,000 from his cousin, Charles Baring Wall, in 1853. At his death the estate comprised 8,058 acres in Hampshire and passed to his cousin, William Henry Baring.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 18 November 1873 and is commemorated by a monument designed by Boehm in Micheldever church (Hants) that was erected by his brother, Lord Northbrook, and also by a new chancel at West Tytherley which was erected in his memory by William Henry Baring, to the designs of J. Colson. His will was proved 18 December 1873 (effects under £1.5m).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, William (1779-1820). </b>Fourth son of Sir Francis Baring (1740-1810), 1st bt., and his wife Harriet (1750-1804), daughter and co-heir of William Herring of Croydon (Surrey), born 8 December 1779. He joined the East India Company and was sent to Canton, where he suffered from recurrent ill health. He married, 19 July 1810 at Putney (Surrey), Frances (1792-1877), fourth daughter of John Poulett Thomson of Waverley Abbey (Surrey) and sister of Charles Poulett Thomson (1799-1841), 1st Baron Sydenham, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Fanny Baring (1811-91), baptised at South Stoneham (Hants), 2 October 1811; married, 15 January 1839 at Putney (Surrey), Rev. Francis Charles Massingberd (1800-72), rector of South Ormsby (Lincs), 1825-72, prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral 1847-62 and chancellor of the diocese of Lincoln, 1862-72, and had issue two sons; died 2 April 1891; will proved 2 May 1891 (effects £2,027);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Georgiana Baring (1814-97), born in November 1814 and baptised at Iwerne Steepleton (Dorset), 23 January 1815; lived at Kingston-on-Thames (Surrey); in the 1880s she interested herself in the case of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborne_case">'Tichborne Claimant'</a>, and paid some of the expenses of Arthur Orton's family in attempting to prove that he was not the claimant; buried 13 December 1897; will proved 27 January 1898 (effects £23,844);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Charlotte Rosa Baring (1817-98), born 23 September 1817; baptised at East Lulworth (Dorset), 6 January 1818; an unusually pretty girl, much admired by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who addressed a birthday poem to her on her 17th birthday; married, 23 October 1838 at Harrington Hall (Lincs), Robert Duncombe Shafto (1806-89) of Whitworth Park (Co. Durham), eldest son of Robert Eden Duncombe Shafto, and had issue one son and one daughter; died 20 November 1898; will proved 8 May 1899 (effects £3,133);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) William Henry Baring (1819-1906) (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He leased Lulworth Castle (Dorset) from the Weld family.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He drowned when he fell off his yacht while sailing off the Isle of Wight, 9 July 1820. His widow married 2nd, 1824, Arthur Eden of Harrington Hall (Lincs), Assistant Comptroller of the Exchequer, and had further issue one son and one daughter; she died 25 March 1877 and her will was proved 12 April 1877 (effects under £1,500).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, William Henry (1819-1906). </b>Only son of William Baring (1779-1820) and his wife Frances, fourth daughter of John Poulett Thomson of Waverley Abbey (Surrey), born 1 December 1819 and received into Church of England at Wimbledon (Surrey), 7 December 1827. Educated at Eton. An officer in the Coldstream Guards (Ensign, 1839; Lt., 1841; Capt., 1846); acted as aide-de-camp to his uncle, Lord Sydenham, as Governor-General of Canada, 1839-41; JP for Hampshire (from 1876). He married, 21 April 1849 at St Marylebone (Middx), Elizabeth (1825-97), daughter of Charles Hammersley of St Marylebone, army agent, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Eleanor Mary Baring (1850-1932), born 10 November and baptised at St Marylebone, 12 December 1850; lived at Burley (Hants); died unmarried, 3 March 1932; will proved 8 April 1932 (estate £6,142);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Francis Charles Baring (1852-1926) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Rose Frederica Baring (1854-1927), born 9 March and baptised at St Marylebone (Middx), 2 May 1854; 'almost the leading élegante of society' in the 1890s, but her second husband's bankruptcy in 1902 left her in straightened circumstances and dependent upon assistance from her relations, and as a widow she lived in Florence (Italy); married 1st,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">29 August 1878 at West Tytherley (Hants) (div. 1885),&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2015/06/173-arkwright-of-mark-hall-parndon-hall.html">Capt. Frank Wigsell Arkwright</a> (1848-93) of Sanderstead Court (Surrey); married 2nd, 25 November 1885 at the British Embassy in Paris (France), Lt-Col. George William Adolphus FitzGeorge (1843-1907), eldest son of George William Frederic Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge by his morganatic marriage with the actress Louisa Fairbrother, and had issue one son; died at Cannes (France), 10 March 1927; administration of goods granted 27 May 1927 (estate £547);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) William Bingham Baring (1859-1916), born 22 September 1859; joined Baring Bros, but was judged not to be of the calibre to be a partner and was 'packed off to Liverpool' with a salary of £500 a year; he later lived at Brockenhurst (Hants); married 2 March 1886 at St Stephen, South Kensington (Middx), Georgiana Margaret (1863-1959), daughter of Charles Hallyburton Campbell of Kensington, a retired Indian civil servant, and had issue one son and one daughter; died 9 July 1916; his will was proved 19 August 1916 (estate £21,321).</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He inherited Norman Court and a legacy of £300,000 from his cousin, Thomas Baring, in 1873.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died at Lymington (Hants), 10 June 1906 and was buried at West Tytherley; his will was proved 15 August 1906 (estate £84,874). His wife died of pneumonia, 6 November 1897 and was buried at West Tytherley; her will was proved 9 March 1898 (effects £518).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, Francis Charles (1852-1926). </b>Elder son of William Henry Baring (1819-1906) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Hammersley, born 17 February and baptised at St Marylebone, 17 March 1852. An officer in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Hampshire Regt. (Sub-Lt., 1876; Lt., 1876; Capt., 1882-84, 1887; Maj. 1899; retired 1901); JP for Hampshire. He married, 5 July 1880 at West Tytherley (div. 1899), Isabella Augusta (1860-1945), eldest daughter of Samuel Leo Schuster, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Violet Nina Baring (1881-1965), born 7 May and baptised at All Souls, Langham Place, Marylebone (Middx), 7 June 1881; married, 23 May 1906 at St Peter, Eaton Sq., London, William Francis D'Arcy (1873-1919), son of William Knox D'Arcy&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">of Stanmore Hall (Middx), holder of the D'Arcy oil concession in Persia</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, and had issue one son; died 25 November 1965; administration of goods granted, 29 April 1966 (estate £6,710);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Thomas Esmé Baring (1882-1957), born 7 May 1882; an officer in the Rifle Brigade (2nd Lt., 1900: Lt., 1902; Capt., 1910; Maj., 1917; retired 1922), he fought in the First World War (mentioned in despatches; OBE); lived at Denham Court, Winchester and later at Pudding Farmhouse, Headbourne Worthy (Hants); married, 2 October 1913, Deirdre Mary Hughes (1890-1973), daughter of Hughes Martin JP of Tullaghreine (Co. Cork) and had issue two sons; died 9 December 1957; will proved 7 March 1958 (estate £166,700);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Arthur Francis Charles Baring (1887-1964), born 14 May 1887; educated at Marlborough; worked in Australia, Shanghai (China) and Canada before First World War; freemason from 1909; served in First World War as an officer in 7th (Cyclist) Battn, Devonshire Regiment (2nd Lt., 1914; Lt., 1915; retired on grounds of ill health, 1917); lived at Cohuna, Victoria, Australia; married, 24 August 1906, Margaret McIntyre (1888-1966), daughter of George Moore of Adelaide (Australia), and had issue four sons and one daughter; died 30 August 1964; will proved 12 August 1969;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Dudley William Baring (1892-1952), born 1892; educated at Wellington College; stockbroker; an officer in the army in the First World War (2nd Lt., 1914; Lt., 1915; Capt., 1918; resigned 1920) and Second World War (Capt., 1940; retired as Maj., 1945); married, 10 April 1919, Cecilia Mary (1891-1971), third daughter of Lt-Col. Michael Rowand Gray-Buchanan, and had issue three sons; died 11 January and was buried at Shiplake (Oxon), 14 January 1952; will proved 21 March 1952 (estate £30,176).</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He and his wife lived in London but spent some of their time at Norman Court until 1889. He inherited Norman Court from his father in 1906 but sold it later the same year. In 1909 he bought Timsbury Manor near Romsey (Hants), where he lived until about 1920.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 1 September 1926; his will was proved October 1926 (estate £73,340). His ex-wife married 2nd, 1 December 1900, as his second wife, Hon. Reginald Thomas Dudley Brougham (1853-1925), son of William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham &amp; Vaux, and died 24 July 1945; administration of her goods was granted to her youngest son, 20 November 1945 (estate £20,811).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sources</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Burke's Landed Gentry</i>, 1924, pp. 80-81; G.F. Prosser, <i>Select views of Hampshire</i>, 1833 (unpaginated); D. Stroud, <i>George Dance, architect, 1741-1825</i>, 1971, pp. 212-13; C. O'Brien, B. Bailey et al., <i>The buildings of England: Hampshire - South</i>, 2018, p. 752;&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><a href="http://collections.soane.org/home">http://collections.soane.org/home</a>;&nbsp; </span><a href="http://research.hgt.org.uk/item/norman-court/">http://research.hgt.org.uk/item/norman-court/</a></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Location of archives</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Baring, Thomas (1799-1873): </i>business,&nbsp;political and personal correspondence and papers, 19th cent. [Barings Archive, NP7]</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Coat of arms</span></b></h4><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Azure, a fess or, in chief a bear's head proper, muzzled and ringed or.</span></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can you help?</span></b></h4><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">If anyone has evidence of when the angle towers were added to the north front of Norman Court, or which architect was responsible, I should be most interested.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I should be most grateful if anyone can provide photographs or portraits of people whose names appear in bold above, and who are not already illustrated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Revision and acknowledgements</span></b></h4><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This post was first published 14 May 2019. I am grateful to Gareth Hughes for his observations on the development of the house.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-87833205774161580642019-05-09T16:21:00.001+01:002019-05-14T16:11:09.069+01:00(375) Baring of Membland House and Lambay Castle, Barons Revelstoke<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S6cToujCeDk/XM61JVzvA-I/AAAAAAAAMTI/zKrxN8bt_1AONefgUPxAxB7QHBJHa_m_gCLcBGAs/s1600/Baring%252C%2BBarons%2BRevelstoke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S6cToujCeDk/XM61JVzvA-I/AAAAAAAAMTI/zKrxN8bt_1AONefgUPxAxB7QHBJHa_m_gCLcBGAs/s200/Baring%252C%2BBarons%2BRevelstoke.jpg" width="166" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baring of Membland and Lambay<br />Barons Revelstoke</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This is one of five posts about the various branches of the Baring family. For an introduction showing how they connect, please see my <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/04/374-baring-of-howick-barons-howick-of.html">previous post</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Henry Baring (1776-1848), with whom the genealogy below begins, was the third son of Sir Francis Baring (1740-1810), 1st bt., one of the three brothers who founded the great merchant bank of Baring Brothers in 1762. He began life with many advantages, being possessed of Regency good looks and an able mind, as well as being born into wealth and privilege (though the prestige and power of Barings was not yet what it would become), and these were characteristics that many of his descendants would share. His looks, charm, manners and wit made him an agreeable companion and very attractive to women. However, he also had weaknesses, which again would recur in his descendants: he was unpredictable, indolent, arrogant, a gambler, and perhaps a cad. At the start of his career he was sent out to the East India Co. trading post in China for several years, to gain experience at the sharp end of overseas trade, and on his return he joined Baring Bros., becoming a partner in 1803. He was never an active or valuable member of the firm, however, and in 1823 his addiction to gambling led his relations to ease him out of the partnership. In 1802 he married Maria Matilda Bingham, the younger sister of his brother Alexander's American wife, much against the wishes of his father, who wanted him to gain more foreign experience before settling down in England. Sir Francis may also have had misgivings about Maria, who had previously eloped with and married a French count, only for the Pennsylvania authorities to annul the marriage under pressure from her family. Although Henry's union with Maria was clearly happy at first, by the early 1820s Henry appears to have encouraged the infidelity which enabled him to divorce her (while keeping most of her fortune). <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_jkcGlm1qtM/XNLMXZY-lWI/AAAAAAAAMU4/rVfp3w2XuZUZ_BBaUbvfdwdevG2wMSY1wCLcBGAs/s1600/Cromer%2BHall%2B9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="1089" height="252" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_jkcGlm1qtM/XNLMXZY-lWI/AAAAAAAAMU4/rVfp3w2XuZUZ_BBaUbvfdwdevG2wMSY1wCLcBGAs/s400/Cromer%2BHall%2B9.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cromer Hall</td></tr></tbody></table>He then promptly married his new amour, Cecilia Anne Windham, who brought him not only a second large family but also a country house, in the shape of the newly rebuilt Cromer Hall.&nbsp; An account of Cromer Hall is reserved to a future post on the Windham family, as Cecilia sold it in 1851 and it did not remain in the Baring family, but it is important to note that Henry's second family were brought up in a country house environment.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Henry's second son by his second marriage, Edward Charles Baring (1828-97), who was made 1st Baron Revelstoke in 1885, entered the family bank as a clerk in 1850 and became a full partner six years later.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">'He is sharp at a bargain', reckoned&nbsp;</span><span class="name" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: auto !important; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background: left center no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Joshua Bates</span><span style="background-color: white;">, a senior partner who had little good to say of any of his juniors, 'but slovenly in keeping his accounts, inexact in his calculations and I doubt his judgements'. From 1873 he became one of the senior partners and from 1883 he was the undisputed head of the firm, and there was no longer anyone who could keep his increasingly over-confident and risky business decisions in check. Although the firm made strong profits in the 1870s, Edward Baring withdrew his full share of them to fund his lifestyle, rather than leaving a proportion in the business to strengthen its capital reserves, as a more cautious partner might have done. As a result he was able to fund the acquisition and remodelling of a string of properties: first Coombe Cottage; then 37-38 Charles St. in Mayfair; and finally Membland Hall. '</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Everything was done with generosity and style; niggardliness was not in his character' notes the <i>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</i>, but his business career reflected the arrogance and gambling for which his father had been noted.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">In the 1880s, the firm became increasingly involved in issuing and underwriting bonds for governments and railway companies in South America, business which was high yield but high risk. When, in 1890, a collapse in confidence in Argentinean railway stock which Barings had underwritten coincided with the withdrawal of millions of pounds of deposits by the Russian government, Barings was left on the cusp of bankruptcy, and had to turn to the Banks of England and France and their rival merchant houses in London, for loans. The&nbsp; partners, including Lord Revelstoke, were personally liable for the losses, but every penny was repaid within a few years, even though it meant selling&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white;">assets, including the Charles St. house, and being left in straightened circumstances. But at least the partners' integrity and honour were unstained, and they had the satisfaction of seeing </span><span class="name" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: auto !important; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background: left center no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: none; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Baring Bros. refounded as</span><span style="background-color: white;">&nbsp;a limited company and regaining much of its prestige.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The driving force behind the new firm was Edward's eldest son, John Baring (1863-1929), who succeeded his father in 1897 as 2nd Baron Revelstoke. He remained at the helm of the reformed company until his death in 1929, and quickly returned the bank to profitable courses. Driven by the experience of ruin, he was always insecure about his personal financial position, even though he became a multi-millionaire. He never married, but spent most of his time in London, where he entertained lavishly at 3 Carlton House Terrace. He sold Membland Hall immediately after his father's death, but kept a small house in Leicestershire for occasional hunting, and spent his summer holidays at Aix-les-Bains (France).</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">In 1929, the Revelstoke title passed to John's younger brother, Cecil Baring (1864-1934), who became 3rd Baron Revelstoke. He balanced a career in the finance industry with interests in classical literature, theatre and architecture, and had charm and a talent for friendship. As a young man, he worked in America for more than a decade, where he fell in love with a married woman, Maude Tailer, who eventually divorced her husband and married him in 1902. Soon afterwards, they were travelling in Ireland when they spotted an advertisement in the newspaper offering for sale Lambay Island off the coast of Co. Dublin. It came with a tumbledown 16th century castle, was almost unoccupied, remote from the modern world, and yet only a few miles from Dublin, and they bought it at once. Edwin Lutyens, then at the height of his powers, was engaged to restore and extend the old castle in 1908-11, and he became a friend of the family and godfather to Cecil's son. Maude Baring sadly died in 1922, and Lutyens designed a grand monument to her memory, and then a few years later he built another large house on the island as a holiday home for Cecil's two married daughters and their families.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">When Cecil died in 1934, Lambay and the Revelstoke peerage passed to his only son, Rupert Baring (1911-94), 4th Baron Revelstoke. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he was judged exceptionally good-looking by contemporaries, and one of his early girlfriends was an actress and former Miss England called Angela Joyce. After he was married to Flora Fermor-Hesketh in 1934, Miss Joyce brought a breach of promise action against him, which was ultimately unsuccessful, although he had to endure his love letters to her being read out in court with his new wife by his side. After this unpromising start, it is perhaps not surprising that their marriage did not last, and they separated in 1942 and were divorced two years later. Lady Revelstoke then married his old friend, Derek Lawson, apparently with his blessing: certainly the three remained friends long afterwards. Rupert's real marriage was increasingly to his home at Lambay Castle, which he left increasingly seldom as the years passed, and which was the subject of much of the verse he loved to compose.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Rupert's short marriage produced two sons, who in the 1970s and 80s were farming in Kenya and France respectively. Rupert seems to have felt that neither of them was sufficiently committed to the future of Lambay to be entrusted with the inheritance of it, so he established a family trust to take ownership of the estate for the benefit of his more extended family. His elder son, John Baring (1934-2003), 5th Baron Revelstoke, had no issue, and so was succeeded in the title by his younger brother, James Cecil Baring (1938-2012), 6th Baron Revelstoke. It is the latter's elder son, Alexander Rupert Baring (b. 1970), 7th Baron Revelstoke, who now occupies Lambay Castle and who is seeking to put Lambay Island on a more sustainable footing with the assistance of his half-sister, Millie Baring.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Coombe Cottage, Kingston, Surrey</b></span></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1861, Edward Baring bought an existing small and very plain house at Coombe near Kingston and engaged the young George Devey to design a new stable block adjoining it in his Wealden style, and a dairy with half-timbered gables, a veranda, and a balcony with a wooden balustrade. A few years later, in 1869-72, he brought Devey back to extend the house to the north with a gabled wing significantly larger than the original house, designed to give the impression of a house which had been extended at intervals over time.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M8GSb6z5H5k/XMw_x5eZdNI/AAAAAAAAMSQ/6goNcyb_eDE04CHKKQtILf4HLg62V8u8ACLcBGAs/s1600/Coombe%2BCottage%252C%2BKingston%2B4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M8GSb6z5H5k/XMw_x5eZdNI/AAAAAAAAMSQ/6goNcyb_eDE04CHKKQtILf4HLg62V8u8ACLcBGAs/s640/Coombe%2BCottage%252C%2BKingston%2B4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Coombe Cottage: an existing small house (on the right) was extended by George Devey in 1869-72 in a manner designed to suggest organic growth over time.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XmEW9xuuS0Y/XMw_x-MKMCI/AAAAAAAAMSU/cxeOvOvY3mInZP3266Lq5shuL8T2VYnJwCLcBGAs/s1600/Coombe%2BCottage%252C%2BKingston%2B5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XmEW9xuuS0Y/XMw_x-MKMCI/AAAAAAAAMSU/cxeOvOvY3mInZP3266Lq5shuL8T2VYnJwCLcBGAs/s640/Coombe%2BCottage%252C%2BKingston%2B5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Coombe Cottage: the rear elevation of the house as extended by Devey incorporates a second tower.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">According to Maurice Baring, it became 'an ivy-covered red-brick house, with a tower at one end, a cool oak hall and staircase, a drawing room full of watercolours, a room next to it full of books... and a long dining room, of which the narrow end was a sitting-room, and had a verandah looking out on to the garden'. The tower actually marks the junction between the original house and the new range, and has a porch in front topped by a wooden balustrade.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1885, part of the land associated with the house was needed for a projected new railway line, and Lord Revelstoke persuaded the railway company to buy the whole property. In the event the line was never built, and the house returned to private ownership until the First World War, when it became a hotel. In the 1950s it was acquired as offices by Rediffusion Engineering, the television company, and when they sold it in the early 1990s it was divided into apartments, with twelve new houses in the grounds.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: sold 1861 to&nbsp;</i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Edward Charles Baring (1828-97), 1st Baron Revelstoke; sold 1885 to London &amp; South Western Railway; sold to Lord Charles Beresford (who rented it to Dame Nellie Melba in 1906); sold c.1914 for use as an hotel; sold 1954 to Rediffusion Engineering; sold c.1992 and divided into apartments.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Membland Hall, Devon</span></b></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">There was probably a medieval manor house here, occupied in turn by the de Mimiland, Hillersdon and Champernowne families. It seems to have been altered or rebuilt in early Tudor times, as a granite fireplace and part of a doorway of that date, found on the site in 1936, reveal. In about 1723 the manor was sold to Arthur Stert, who replaced the house soon afterwards with 'a well-built brick house, with offices on each side, connected to the main body of the house by a kind of arched way' as Polwhele's <i>History of Devon </i>puts it. Some of the medieval and Tudor house seems to have survived as a farmhouse until the 1780s, when Peter Perring, a sugar planter from the East Indies 'entirely destroyed' the remains.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yoVgVDDCtYo/XM2SmddeddI/AAAAAAAAMSg/cZ_4ckDX8QQfLet64UEgnbim34jk0VMiACLcBGAs/s1600/Membland%2BHouse%2B10%2B1863.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="985" height="414" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yoVgVDDCtYo/XM2SmddeddI/AAAAAAAAMSg/cZ_4ckDX8QQfLet64UEgnbim34jk0VMiACLcBGAs/s640/Membland%2BHouse%2B10%2B1863.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Membland Hall: Ordnance Survey 6" map of 1863 showing the footprint of the Georgian house.&nbsp;</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1827 the house was sold with 1,950 acres for £53,400, and was described as 'a brick built edifice, erected on an elevation, with wings'. The sale particulars show that the house was a five bay block of three storeys above a basement, with two wings, one of them attached to it by an arcade, as described by Polwhele, although the other arcade had apparently been demolished. It was rather unexpectedly built of white brick. The accommodation comprised four reception rooms on the ground floor, four principal bedrooms on the first floor, and further bedrooms and a nursery on the top floor, with the services in the wings, and the house had probably changed little since it was built. In about 1875, it was sold to Edward Baring, a senior partner in the family bank, who was created 1st Baron Revelstoke in 1885. His wife's family already owned the adjoining Mothecombe and Pamflete estates and his partner, Henry Bingham Mildmay, owned nearby Flete, so his purchase of Membland created a short-lived family domain on a scale to rival that of the Rothschilds in Buckinghamshire. The four houses were soon linked by a nine mile circular drive served by three 'picnic cottages' built at strategic points.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jI9qgex1C1I/XM2Td3n_pII/AAAAAAAAMSo/p-2Lawb9Y5o-dz0NNKSp96fHuqg9MYAfACLcBGAs/s1600/Membland%2BHouse%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="960" height="432" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jI9qgex1C1I/XM2Td3n_pII/AAAAAAAAMSo/p-2Lawb9Y5o-dz0NNKSp96fHuqg9MYAfACLcBGAs/s640/Membland%2BHouse%2B2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Membland Hall: entrance front as remodelled by George Devey, 1876-79.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The 18th century century house at Membland was inadequate to the scale of the entertaining Lord Revelstoke envisaged, and he commissioned George Devey (who had already worked for him at Coombe Cottage) to extend it in 1876-79. Devey kept the Georgian central block with little alteration apart from the replacement of the windows with plate glass sashes and the addition of external shutters, but this block became the centre of a jumbled and consciously asymmetrical house with an ungainly four-storey tower at one end which mixed Jacobean and Italianate forms with regrettable freedom. The tower was connected to the main block by a new classical portico serving as a new entrance.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Oy9nQkk2F9U/XM2T4ckLYqI/AAAAAAAAMSw/ZjJe2-78Pscg2TQWUUhiAut1PhPKAHyiQCLcBGAs/s1600/Membland%2BHouse%2B5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1069" height="390" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Oy9nQkk2F9U/XM2T4ckLYqI/AAAAAAAAMSw/ZjJe2-78Pscg2TQWUUhiAut1PhPKAHyiQCLcBGAs/s640/Membland%2BHouse%2B5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Membland Hall: garden front after the enlargement by George Devey, 1876-79.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r4b1917YmfI/XM2UpGwRNwI/AAAAAAAAMTA/HhLQ9Aeyl-U4T5Dj7JOF0GFppJxwHRCnwCLcBGAs/s1600/Membland%2BHouse%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1012" height="536" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r4b1917YmfI/XM2UpGwRNwI/AAAAAAAAMTA/HhLQ9Aeyl-U4T5Dj7JOF0GFppJxwHRCnwCLcBGAs/s640/Membland%2BHouse%2B3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Membland Hall: looking from Devey's entrance hall into the old house.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The ground floor rooms of the old house were adapted as library, dining room, smoking room and staircase, to the west of which Devey added a marble-floored outer hall, a cloakroom and two large reception rooms (drawing room and billiard room), while on the east he constructed an extensive service court that included an octagonal game larder with space for 2,000 head of game. Some of the service accommodation was placed, unusually for the time, in the cellar. The billiard room, which doubled as a saloon, also contained a staircase rising to a curious Ionic-columned baldacchino at the entrance to the first-floor gallery. At the south end of the room, a black marble balustrade and a pair of columns divided it from a sun room with a semi-circle of windows. The drawing room was the most richly decorated room in the house, with white-painted panelling in a sub-Adam manner. Much of the decoration was carried out by Morris &amp; Co., and included William de Morgan tiles in the fireplace surrounds of the two new reception rooms. Upstairs, the house had 35 bedrooms, clearly demonstrating the scale of the entertaining envisaged.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GzIaiLJHCfs/XM2T5IUN2AI/AAAAAAAAMS0/mV76VeKU29Erg0q01UYxXxiDBcOJgq65gCLcBGAs/s1600/Membland%2BHouse%2B007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1143" data-original-width="1600" height="456" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GzIaiLJHCfs/XM2T5IUN2AI/AAAAAAAAMS0/mV76VeKU29Erg0q01UYxXxiDBcOJgq65gCLcBGAs/s640/Membland%2BHouse%2B007.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Membland Hall: drawing room by George Devey, 1876-79.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Alongside the development of the house and the layout of the carriage drive mentioned above, Devey remodelled the 18th century stable block and added a smaller hunting stable nearby, and three lodges were built at the entrances to the estate, apparently to the designs of J.P. St. Aubyn. One, set on the boundary between the Bulteel and Baring properties, sported gate piers surmounted by carved figures of a bull and a bear, which were a playful reference to the names of the owners and also to stock market terminology. There were also many other, more functional buildings, including an electricity house, telegraph office, gasworks, ice house, sewage farm, two water reservoirs, a steam laundry with a clock tower, several cottages and a home farm, many of which carry Edward Baring's initials and a datestone. There was also a boathouse on the River Yealm for Baring's steam launch, <i>The Wasp</i>. These later buildings seem mostly to have been designed by G.W. Crosbie, who became Devey's clerk of works, and whose design for the steam laundry was published in the <i>Journal of the Society of Estate Clerks of Works</i>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">For a few years, Membland was 'a place of rare and radiant happiness', but in 1890 the Baring banking crisis eliminated the wealth that supported the family's lifestyle. Lord Revelstoke handed the property on to his son, who sold it in 1899 to a Hartlepool shipping magnate, William Gray, who used it only for shooting parties. He tried unsuccessfully to sell it in 1911 and it was used during the First World War as an officer training camp. The estate was broken up and sold off piecemeal, and when the house was sold in 1924 after Gray's death, it realised only £2,800. It changed hands several times thereafter before 'the fabric of the mansion' was advertised in a demolition auction in 1927. The house was demolished and the materials recycled shortly afterwards. In the 1960s the site was sold to Albert Bradford, a Midlands garage owner, who built a small house on the site using old foundations and materials, which remains in the possession of his family.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: sold c.1723 to Arthur Stert; to grandson, Joseph May of Lisbon (Portugal), who sold 1757 to John Bulteel, later of Flete (Devon); sold 1780 to Peter Perring, sugar planter; to brother, Philip Perring; to son, Sir John Perring, 1st bt.; sold 1827 to Robert Richardson; sold 1841... sold 1860 to John Lewis MP; sold c.1875 to Edward Charles Baring (1828-97), 1st Baron Revelstoke; gifted to son, John Baring (1863-1929), later 2nd Baron Revelstoke, who sold 1898 to William Gray (d. 1924) of Hartlepool (Co. Durham), shipping magnate; sold three times after his death in quick succession and finally sold for demolition, 1927. The site was sold by a Mr Pitts in 1967 to Albert Bradford, a garage proprietor, who built a small new house on the site.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b></b></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b></b></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b></b></span><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Lambay Castle, Lambay Island, Co. Dublin</b></span></h3><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br />A few miles off the coast of Co. Dublin lies Lambay Island, a rather exposed lump of igneous rock rising out of the Irish sea that extends to some 600 acres. Although the highest point is over 400 ft above sea level, much of the island is relatively low-lying, and in medieval and early modern times, when it was not continuously occupied, it provided a convenient base for pirates and unfriendly foreign forces. As a result, the island was intermittently fortified, and when John Chaloner (d. 1580) obtained a lease of it from the Archbishop of Dublin in 1551 he was required to make a harbour and a place of refuge fortified with a wall or a mound and ditch for the protection of the colony he proposed to establish there. We do not know whether the colony came to anything, but after Chaloner's death the island was wrested from his son by his kinsman, Sir William Ussher, and it was probably he who built the small stone blockhouse that forms the basis of the present house.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_m1VHaqUa1U/XNKe-WfVdeI/AAAAAAAAMUA/PipjGII_SeUxdLHa3V-nH34EwB2Yl6ahwCLcBGAs/s1600/Lambay%2BCastle%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_m1VHaqUa1U/XNKe-WfVdeI/AAAAAAAAMUA/PipjGII_SeUxdLHa3V-nH34EwB2Yl6ahwCLcBGAs/s640/Lambay%2BCastle%2B3.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Lambay Castle: the west front of the late 16th century blockhouse. Image: The Lutyens Trust.&nbsp;</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">We can assume that it was completed by 1626, when Archbishop James Ussher and Dr Arthur stayed on Lambay for some seven weeks. It was probably then a more pleasant peaceful place than it became later in the 17th century, when it was captured by Cromwell in December 1641, or when it was used to intern over a thousand men (most if not all of whom must have been under canvas) after the Williamite war in 1691.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IYw6eYfzD_I/XNKoD_f1YaI/AAAAAAAAMUQ/ELsj0ARF0wMw5ZWkDGe73mXLpRUKCwFpgCLcBGAs/s1600/Lambay%2BCastle%2B4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IYw6eYfzD_I/XNKoD_f1YaI/AAAAAAAAMUQ/ELsj0ARF0wMw5ZWkDGe73mXLpRUKCwFpgCLcBGAs/s640/Lambay%2BCastle%2B4.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Lambay Castle: ground and first floor plans, as altered by Lutyens, 1908-11.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The two-storey late 16th or early 17th century castle took the form of a central chamber with a room attached to each corner, the outer angles of which were drawn out to an acute point for defensive advantage. The rough-hewn walls were partly rendered and lime-washed. By the beginning of the 20th century some minor additions and alterations had been made to the design, especially on the north-east side, but the overall form of the design remained clear, though the house was in poor condition. Bad storms in 1903 had devastated the surrounding woodland and damaged the roof, making the building even more inhospitable. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hKh-OeXpD1c/XNQ1OVSrdII/AAAAAAAAMVA/l-lxmTUjOxU2OYfUCa2frmzhnNc0wkYdwCLcBGAs/s1600/Lambay%2BCastle%2B14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hKh-OeXpD1c/XNQ1OVSrdII/AAAAAAAAMVA/l-lxmTUjOxU2OYfUCa2frmzhnNc0wkYdwCLcBGAs/s400/Lambay%2BCastle%2B14.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lambay Castle: ground and first floor plans, <br />as altered by Lutyens, 1908-11. Image: <a href="https://theirishaesthete.com/2016/06/27/a-central-idea-beautifully-phrased/">The Irish Aesthete</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">It was bought as 'a private get-away from London society' in 1904 by the Hon. Cecil Baring (1864-1934), later 3rd Baron Revelstoke, who was a younger son of the 1st Baron, and his American wife. In 1905 they commissioned Sir Edwin Lutyens to restore and extend the building without overwhelming the original castle. His first task was to replace the failing roof with a new one of grey pantiles, supported on a cornice made with great simplicity of the same material. Having made the place minimally habitable, architect and client debated the form of the additions and alterations for two years before work began in 1908. The primitive simplicity of the castle building provided the keynote to the scheme. The walls of the interior were left as exposed stone and the ceilings as plain plaster vaults with the simplest stone arches. The timber floors were uncovered, and the rooms were barely furnished at all. To complement this austerity, a new courtyard was constructed, with service accommodation on the ground floor and bedrooms above. This new wing was larger than the original house but was set into rising ground under a huge sweeping roof so that it does not compete aggressively with the castle. The two sections are linked internally only by a ground-level passage. Work on the restoration and enlargement was completed by 1912, when the house was first published in the architectural press. </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sb2SyZ_pcuk/XNQ3Hcl-38I/AAAAAAAAMVI/um43WoJDWMMsLJ3bE1i_nRZC5I_kM48cACLcBGAs/s1600/Lambay%2BCastle%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="1600" height="454" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sb2SyZ_pcuk/XNQ3Hcl-38I/AAAAAAAAMVI/um43WoJDWMMsLJ3bE1i_nRZC5I_kM48cACLcBGAs/s640/Lambay%2BCastle%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Lambay Castle: the quadrangular addition by Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1908-11. Image:&nbsp;<a href="https://theirishaesthete.com/2016/01/30/stripped-back/" style="text-align: start;">The Irish Aesthete</a><span style="text-align: start;">.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> East of the old house Lutyens also added a series of service and farm buildings, the impact of which was again softened by clever landscaping, in which Lutyens was helped by his frequent collaborator, Gertrude Jekyll. Together they devised a series of compartmentalised spaces which control the way the buildings are viewed and prevent the scale of the whole complex becoming apparent. The planting in each space is slightly different but the entirety conforms to Lutyens' view that ‘a garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.’&nbsp;</span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-77iI07vw3gg/XNKpEcBCv3I/AAAAAAAAMUo/T3U5lSZ6J_4VptxpFJwNP1Y-k2ru7RF7gCLcBGAs/s1600/Lambay%2BCastle%2BWhitehouse.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-77iI07vw3gg/XNKpEcBCv3I/AAAAAAAAMUo/T3U5lSZ6J_4VptxpFJwNP1Y-k2ru7RF7gCLcBGAs/s640/Lambay%2BCastle%2BWhitehouse.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Lambay Castle: the White House, built in 1929-33 for Lord Revelstoke's daughters.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Closer to the quay on the western side of the island is a second large residence, built around three sides of a rectangle, and known as the White House, which was built (again by Lutyens) in 1929-33 for Lord Revelstoke's daughters, Daphne and Calypso. This has now been adapted to provide accommodation for guests. From 2018 the family has begun to lease out both the main building and the White House to carefully selected paying guests.<br /><br /><i>Descent: Lord Talbot de Malahide sold 1888 to Count James Considine; sold 1904 to Hon. Cecil Baring (1864-1934), later 3rd Baron Revelstoke; to son, Rupert Baring (1911-94), 4th Baron Revelstoke; given in the 1980s to Revelstoke Trust.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i><br /></i></span> <br /><h3><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Baring family of Membland and Lambay, Barons Revelstoke</span></b></h3><div><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v3kIZdAg1z4/XNF9JrXPMxI/AAAAAAAAMT4/XYEx_wZify0F1aSuFrH3e7PyK8sLCUwmgCLcBGAs/s1600/Baring%252C%2BHenry%2B1776-1848.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v3kIZdAg1z4/XNF9JrXPMxI/AAAAAAAAMT4/XYEx_wZify0F1aSuFrH3e7PyK8sLCUwmgCLcBGAs/s320/Baring%252C%2BHenry%2B1776-1848.jpg" width="255" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry Baring (1776-1848)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, Henry (1776-1848). </b>Third son of Sir Francis Baring (1740-1810), 1st bt., and his wife Harriet, daughter and co-heir of William Herring of Croydon (Surrey), born 18 January 1776. In the late 1790s he spent several years at the East India Company's trading station in China. On his return, he became a partner in Baring Bros., 1803-23, but one who 'contributed little to its management or reputation'; he was eventually excluded from the firm because of his addiction to gambling. He was, however, a successful gambler, who several times broke the bank at his favourite casino in Paris, and is said to have won his house at 11 Berkeley Square from Lord Orford at cards. He was&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">MP for Bossiney, 1806-07 and for Colchester, 1820-26, but is not known to have spoken in the House of Commons.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;In 1824 he divorced his first wife</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">on the grounds of her adultery with a Captain Webster, securing damages of £1,000 from Webster for 'crim. con.', but it seems it would be wrong to conclude that he was a justly aggreived party. He not only managed to keep most of her £200,000 fortune, but is said to have encouraged her seduction&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; text-align: justify;">after he had fallen in love with the lady who became his second</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;wife,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">by throwing her into the most dissipated company, while being glaringly unfaithful himself</span>. Despite </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">his divorce he continued to be a popular figure in society, and was particularly noted for his wonderful shooting. He married 1st, 19 April 1802 (div. 1824), Maria Matilda (1783-1849), second daughter of Senator William Bingham of Philadelphia (USA) and formerly wife* of Jacques Alexander, Comte de Tilly, who was also the younger sister of his brother Alexander's wife; married 2nd, 9 July 1825, Cecilia Anne (c.1802-74), eldest daughter of Vice-Adm. William Windham of Cromer Hall (Norfk), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Anna Maria Baring (b. 1803), born 2 March and baptised at St Marylebone (Middx), 20 April 1803; married, 30 July 1823 at St George, Hanover Sq., London, William Gordon Coesvelt (1795-1839), Dutch financier and art collector, and had issue one daughter; lived in Montpellier (France); death not traced;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Henry Bingham Baring (1804-69), born 4 March and was baptised at St. Marylebone, 6 August 1804; educated at Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1822); an officer in the army (Ensign, 1824; Lt., 1827; Capt., 1829; Maj., 1830; retired 1834); Conservative MP for Callington, 1831-32 and Marlborough, 1832-68; a Lord of the Treasury, 1841-46; a partner in Barings Bank, 1858-67; in later life he lived chiefly in France despite his commitments in London; married 1st, 30 June 1827, Augusta (1807-53), fifth daughter of Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan, and had issue three sons and two daughters; married 2nd, 15 February 1854 at the British Embassy in Paris, Marie (1828-1903), daughter of Solomon Mikhailovitch Martynov of St Petersburg (Russia); died at Nice (France), 25 April 1869;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.3) James Drummond Baring (1808-1901), born 3 December 1808 and baptised at St Marylebone, 30 March 1809; an officer in the army (Cornet, 1828; Lt., 1833) and later a merchant in Paris; died unmarried in Paris, 28 June 1901; administration of goods (with will annexed) granted 28 February 1902 (effects in England, £310);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.4) Frances Emily Baring (1811-86), baptised at South Stoneham (Hants), 9 November 1811; a skilled watercolour artist; married, 19 August 1830 at Ickburgh (Norfk), Henry Bridgeman Simpson (1795-1873) of Babworth Hall (Notts), son of John Simpson, but had no issue; died 14 March and was buried at Eaton (Notts), 19 March 1886; will proved 11 May 1886 (estate £49,953);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.5) William Frederick Baring (1822-1903), born 12 August 1822; married, 8 November 1845 at the British Embassy in Paris, Emily, eldest daughter of Sir Richard Jenkins GCB of Bicton Hall (Shrops.) and had issue one son and one daughter; died in Brussels (Belgium), 10 December 1903; administration of goods (with will annexed) granted 13 January 1904 (estate £1,928);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1) William Windham Baring (1826-76), born 19 April 1826; educated at Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1843; BA 1847) and Inner Temple (admitted 1850; called to bar 1853); barrister-at-law; a freemason from 1848; married, 2 January 1862 at St Paul, Knightsbridge (Middx), Selina Barbara Wilhelmina (1835-1919), youngest daughter of Maj-Gen. the Hon. Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby GCMG, KCB, but had no issue; died at Evershot (Dorset), 20 November 1876; will proved 27 December 1876 (effects under £18,000);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.2) Edward Charles Baring (1828-97), 1st Baron Revelstoke (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.3) Cecilia Annetta Baring (1832-1911), born 27 February 1832; a Lady of the Bedchamber to HM Queen Alexandra, 1873-1911; married 4 April 1854, Charles Harbord GCVO KCB PC (1830-1914), 5th Baron Suffield (who m2, 15 July 1911</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">,&nbsp;</span>Frances Amelia Jessie Eliot (d. 1934), daughter of Maj Robert Poole Gabbett, of Corbally, co. Limerick, and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">widow of Col Charles C. Rich</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">)&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">and had issue two sons and seven daughters; died 16 February 1911 and was buried at Gunton (Norfk); will proved 30 March 1911 (effects £534);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.4) <i>twin,&nbsp;</i>Robert Baring (1833-1915), born 29 November 1833&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">and baptised at Felbrigg (Norfk), 3 August 1834;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">an officer in the army (Cornet, 1851; Lt., 1854; Capt., 1858; Maj., 1869; Lt-Col., 1876; retired as Col., 1876); subsequently company director and Chairman of Kalgurli Gold Mines, Australia; died unmarried, 23 November 1915; will proved 4 January 1916 (estate £155,465);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.5) <i>twin,&nbsp;</i>Richard Baring (1833-83), born 29 November 1833 and baptised at Felbrigg (Norfk), 3 August 1834;&nbsp;company director and partner in Sheen tea plantation, Ceylon; died unmarried, 15 November 1883; will proved 5 January 1884 (estate £26,172);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.6) Thomas Baring (1839-1923); educated at Eton (captain of boats); at first joined Baring Bros. in Liverpool and then Kidder Peabody in New York, of which he became a partner in 1883; when the firm was divided he formed a new partnership with George Magoun, which acted as Barings agents in New York; after the crisis of 1890 he became a partner in the new firm of Baring Bros &amp; Co. Ltd., 1892-1912, but continued to manage the New York end of the business; he was 'a large red-faced shrewd irascible but lovable man' who could be active and efficient in business when stirred, but was habitually rather indolent;&nbsp;his Blimpish manner concealed a passion for classical literature and antiques; he was also fond of hunting in both England and America; married, May 1901 in Paris (France), Constance (1863-1948), daughter of William Barron and had issue two sons; lived at 18 Portman Square, London, and&nbsp;later at Grove House, Newmarket (Suffk); died 4 June 1923 and was buried at Newmarket Town Cemetery; will proved 24 August 1923 (estate £266,121);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.7) Evelyn Baring (1841-1917), 1st Earl of Cromer [for whom see my post on the <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/04/374-baring-of-howick-barons-howick-of.html">Barings of Howick Hall</a>];</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.8) Walter Baring (1844-1915), born 22 October 1844; an officer in the diplomatic service, serving as Resident Minister at Montevideo and Consul-General for Uruguay, 1893-1906; married, 30 June 1875 at British Embassy in Constantinople (Turkey), Ellen Ayestia (1850-1914), daughter of Frederick Guarracino and had issue one son and one daughter; died 3 April 1915; will proved 13 July 1915 (estate £47,727).</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">His wife inherited Cromer Hall (Norfolk) and he lived there from about 1830 until his death; she sold it in about 1851.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 13 April 1848; his will was proved in the PCC, 8 May 1848. His first wife</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> moved, after their divorce, to France, where in April 1826 she married Auguste de Blaisel, Marquis de Blaisel, chamberlain to the Emperor of Austria; she died in England in 1849, where her will was proved in the PCC, 10 August 1849</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. His widow died 21 October 1874; her will was proved 23 November 1874 (estate under £40,000).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">* She had eloped with the Count and been legally married to him, but they were forcibly separated by her family, who induced the Pennsylvania authorities to annul the marriage.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kHBDTgLWYpg/XNEj0YxVLJI/AAAAAAAAMTY/VFQ4ABTBlvYNNWAMaijvmYrfNf9janbtQCLcBGAs/s1600/Baring%252C%2BEdward%252C%2B1st%2BBaron%2BRevelstoke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="521" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kHBDTgLWYpg/XNEj0YxVLJI/AAAAAAAAMTY/VFQ4ABTBlvYNNWAMaijvmYrfNf9janbtQCLcBGAs/s400/Baring%252C%2BEdward%252C%2B1st%2BBaron%2BRevelstoke.jpg" width="297" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, Edward Charles (1828-97), 1st Baron Revelstoke. </b>Second son of Henry Baring (1776-1848) and his second wife&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Cecilia Anne, eldest daughter of Vice-Adm. William Windham of Cromer Hall (Norfk), born 13 April 1828. Educated at Rugby School. Partner in Barings Bank, 1856-90, and senior partner from 1884; a director of the Bank of England, 1879-91; chairman of Lloyds of London, 1887-92; Lt. of the City of London.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He was raised to the peerage as Baron Revelstoke, 30 June 1885.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;His biographer, Philip Ziegler, calls him 'intelligent and cultivated, self-confident to the point of arrogance', and u</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">nder his leadership, Barings began to take reckless risks in some aspects of its work, underwriting increasingly large proportions of the stock it issued and as a result sometimes finding itself taking large amounts of stock for its own account. Towards the end of the 1880s Barings became increasingly active in the issuing of Argentine stock, much of which was left on its books, and by the end of 1890 the firm was in the grip of a liquidity crisis. To avoid bankruptcy, it was forced to turn to the Banks of England and France and to its commercial rivals for assistance. A new company, Baring Brothers &amp; Co Limited, was subsequently formed to take over Barings’ business. Lord Revelstoke was seen as being primarily responsible for the firm’s problems and did not become a director of the newly-formed company. Meanwhile his houses, furniture and pictures were sold as the partners were personally liable for the firm’s debts.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He married, 30 April 1861, Louisa Emily Charlotte (1839-92), daughter of John Crocker Bulteel of Flete and Lyneham (Devon), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Arthur Baring (1862-63), born 28 April 1862; died in infancy, 19 June 1863;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2)&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">John Baring (1863-1929), 2nd Baron Revelstoke (</span><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">q.v.</i><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Cecil Baring (1864-1934), 3rd Baron Revelstoke (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Brig-Gen. the Hon. Everard Baring (1865-1932), born 5 December 1865; educated at Eton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; an officer in the army (Lt., 1884; Capt., 1890; Maj., 1898; Lt-Col., 1903; retired 1905; hon. Brig-Gen., 1918); military secretary to Viceroy of India, 1899-1905; appointed CVO, 1903 and CBE, 1919; Chairman of Southern Railway, 1924-32; director of National Provincial Bank Ltd.; lived at Sleightholmedale Lodge (Yorks NR), which his wife was given by her father as a wedding present; married, 15 September 1904, Lady Ulrica (1875-1935), youngest daughter of William Ernest </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Duncombe,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">1st Earl of Feversham, and had issue three daughters; died 7 May 1932 and was buried at Tandridge (Surrey); will proved 16 June 1932 (estate £115,188);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) The Hon. Elizabeth Baring (1867-1944), born 16 March 1867; married, 26 April 1887, Valentine Charles Browne CVO (1840-1941), 5th Earl of Kenmare, and had issue one son; died 21 May 1944; will proved 28 August 1944 (estate £10,156);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) The Hon. Margaret Baring (1868-1906), born 14 December 1868; married, 25 July 1887, Charles Robert Spencer KG GCVO PC (1857-1922), 1st Viscount Althorp and later 6th Earl Spencer, and had issue three sons and three daughters; died 4 July 1906; administration of goods granted 10 December 1906 (estate £6,501);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) The Hon. Susan Baring (1870-1961), born 9 October 1870; Maid of Honour to HM Queen Victoria, 1898-99; married, 28 November 1899, Sir James Reid (1849-1923), 1st bt., of Ellon, and had issue one son; died aged 90, 8 February 1961; will proved 17 April 1961 (estate £13,612);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(8) W/Cdr. the Hon. Maurice Baring (1874-1945), born 27 April 1874; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1893); writer and man of letters; in HM diplomatic service, 1897-1904; travelled widely, especially in Russia, and acted as a special correspondent for <i>Morning Post </i>and <i>The Times</i>, 1904-14; served in First World War with Intelligence Service and Royal Air Force (Lt., 1915; Capt., 1915; Maj., 1917; hon. W/Cdr., 1925); appointed OBE, 1918 and awarded Legion d'honneur, 1935; after war service he became a full-time dramatist, poet and novelist; he suffered in his later years from Parkinson's disease, and during the Second World War left his home in Rottingdean (Sussex), which was later destroyed in a German bombing raid, to be cared for by friends in Scotland; he died unmarried at Beaufort Castle (Inverness-shire), 16 December 1945;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(9) Capt. the Hon. Hugo Baring (1876-1949), born 6 October 1876; educated at Eton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; an officer in the army (Lt., 1897; Capt., 1915) during the Boer War and First World War (wounded); participated in British Military Mission to Siberia, 1918-19; subsequently a director of the Westminster Bank; married, 1 March 1905, Lady Evelyn Harriet (1865-1931), second daughter of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury, and widow of James McGarel-Hogg (1861-1903), 2nd Baron Magheramorne, and had issue one son; died 20 August 1949;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(10) Rupert Baring (b. &amp; d. 1878), born about September 1878 and baptised at Revelstoke, 13 October 1878; died in infancy and was buried at Revelstoke, 24 October 1878.</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He bought Coombe Cottage in 1861 and greatly enlarged it to the designs of George Devey in 1869-72. He purchased the Revelstoke and Membland estate in Devon in about 1875, and again employed Devey to enlarge it. He sold Coombe in 1885 and gave Membland to his eldest surviving son c.1895. He bought 37 Charles St. in Mayfair in about 1870 and remodelled and enlarged it c.1885, uniting it with the house next door (no. 38), but it was sold to help pay his debts following the collapse of the bank in 1890.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 17 July and was buried at Revelstoke, 22 July 1897; his will was proved 3 August 1897 (effects £36,878). His wife died 16 October 1892.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EpsHk1hzCOg/XNEkYyEUoNI/AAAAAAAAMTg/Ex-VTgXl-8IInZyTF0czqPSUHonRxo8ngCLcBGAs/s1600/Baring%252C%2BJohn%252C%2B2nd%2BBaron%2BRevelstoke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1108" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EpsHk1hzCOg/XNEkYyEUoNI/AAAAAAAAMTg/Ex-VTgXl-8IInZyTF0czqPSUHonRxo8ngCLcBGAs/s320/Baring%252C%2BJohn%252C%2B2nd%2BBaron%2BRevelstoke.jpg" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">John Baring, 2nd Baron Revelstoke</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, John (1863-1929), 2nd Baron Revelstoke. </b>Eldest surviving son of Edward Charles Baring (1828-97), 1st Baron Revelstoke, and his wife&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Louisa Emily Charlotte, daughter of John Crocker Bulteel of Flete and Lyneham (Devon),</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;born 7 September 1893. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1882).&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He joined Baring Bros as a clerk on leaving Cambridge, and was sent around the world between 1885 and 1887. He became a partner in the firm in 1890, but although he was liable for a share of the losses he had not been responsible for the collapse of 1890, and he played the leading role in re-establishing the prestige of the firm as a director</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;of its successor, Baring Bros &amp; Co. Ltd., 1890-1929, of which he became the senior partner in 1901. His experience of ruin made him exceptionally cautious in business, and left him with a dread of going into debt. Despite, or perhaps because, of his aversion to risk, Barings became extremely profitable once more, and his personal share of the profits made him a multi-millionaire. He was a director of the Bank of England, 1898-1929 and a member of the expert committee on German reparations, 1929. He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Revelstoke, 17 July 1897 and became a privy councillor in 1902. He was a childhood playmate and lifelong friend of King George V, who appointed him&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall, 1908, in which capacity he reorganised the whole system of royal income and expenditure. He&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">was appointed GCVO, 1911, was made a Commander of Legion d'honneur, 1924 and was awarded the Russian Order of the White Eagle, 1915, and the Grand Cordon of the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, 1926.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He possessed a natural hauteur and remoteness, and although he had a number of close friendships with women, he remained unmarried&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">and without issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He lived at 3 Carlton House Terrace, London, but also had a&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">house in the country at</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>&nbsp;Firbank, near Market Harborough (</i></span></span><i><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Leics)</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">.</span></i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died of a heart attack while in Paris for meetings of the committee on German war reparations, 19 April, and was buried at Revelstoke, 23 April 1929. His will was proved 4 July 1929 (estate £2,558,779), and made provision for a number of charitable donations, the gift of pictures to the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, and the payment of an amount equivalent to a year's salary to every permanent member of Baring Bros staff with more than three years' service.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EucpXBNOHWE/XNA2kRoL56I/AAAAAAAAMTQ/EpVemnmZXpIqa6wqxB9YoVAHip5tMI5DQCLcBGAs/s1600/Baring%252C%2BCecil%252C%2B3rd%2BBaron%2BRevelstoke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="372" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EucpXBNOHWE/XNA2kRoL56I/AAAAAAAAMTQ/EpVemnmZXpIqa6wqxB9YoVAHip5tMI5DQCLcBGAs/s200/Baring%252C%2BCecil%252C%2B3rd%2BBaron%2BRevelstoke.jpg" width="167" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, Cecil (1864-1934), 3rd Baron Revelstoke. </b>Second surviving son of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Edward Charles Baring (1828-97), 1st Baron Revelstoke, and his wife&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Louisa Emily Charlotte, daughter of John Crocker Bulteel of Flete and Lyneham (Devon),</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;born 12 September 1864. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford (matriculated 1884; BA 1887; MA 1891), where he developed a lifelong passion for the classics; he travelled in Greece in 1883. After leaving Oxford, he worked in New York for Kidder Peabody &amp; Co. and later Baring, Magoun &amp; Co., 1887-1901; a director of Baring Bros, 1911-34; also a member of the London committee of HSBC, a director of Scottish Equable Life Assurance Soc., and chairman of the UK Temperance and General Provident Institution. He succeeded his elder brother as 3rd Baron Revelstoke, 19 April 1929. He was 'a man of quite exceptional charm and whimsical humour', with a wide circle of friends, and wide interests, including the theatre and real tennis, for which he had an open court built on Lambay. In 1923, after the death of his wife, he took his children to India to see Lutyens' work at New Delhi. He married, 8 November 1902 in London, Maude (1873-1922), youngest daughter of Pierre Lorillard of Rancocas, New Jersey (USA), tobacco manufacturer and racehorse owner, and divorced wife of Thomas Suffern Tailer (1867-1928), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) The Hon. Daphne Baring (1904-86), born 15 February 1904; educated at Slade School of Art, where she became an accomplished mural painter; following her marriage she became a Roman Catholic; married, 11 February 1926, Arthur Joseph Lawrence Pollen (1899-1968), a fellow artist, and had issue two sons and four daughters (including the architect Francis Pollen (1926-87)); died 20 May 1986; will proved 18 September 1986 (estate £83,784);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) The Hon. Calypso Baring (1905-74), born 15 October 1905; became a naturalised American citizen, 1940; married, 7 April 1926 (div. 1943), Guy Maynard Liddell CB CBE MC (1892-1958), wartime head of counter espionage at MI5, and had issue one son and three daughters; died at Los Angeles, California (USA), 25 October 1974; administration of her goods (with will annexed) was granted 24 October 1975 (effects in England £8,441);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Rupert Baring (1911-94), 4th Baron Revelstoke (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He purchased Lambay Castle (Co. Dublin) in 1904 and restored and extended it to the designs of Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1908-11. He also built the White House on Lambay Island for his two daughters in 1929.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 26 January 1934; his will was proved 5 April 1934 (estate in England £406,773; effects in Ireland £2,953). His wife died 2 April 1922.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IXKn54FeS7w/XNElEKLE4pI/AAAAAAAAMTo/J4O_vfgbFZMiTu1gjeYmOAaljeC1B8X2wCLcBGAs/s1600/Baring%252C%2BRupert%252C%2B4th%2BBaron%2BRevelstoke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="278" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IXKn54FeS7w/XNElEKLE4pI/AAAAAAAAMTo/J4O_vfgbFZMiTu1gjeYmOAaljeC1B8X2wCLcBGAs/s320/Baring%252C%2BRupert%252C%2B4th%2BBaron%2BRevelstoke.jpg" width="222" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Rupert Baring, 4th Baron Revelstoke</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, Rupert (1911-94), 4th Baron Revelstoke. </b>Only son of Cecil Baring (1864-1934), 3rd Baron Revelstoke, and his wife Maude,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">youngest daughter of Pierre Lorillard of Rancocas, New Jersey (USA), born 8 February 1911. Sir Edwin Lutyens was his godfather. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He succeeded his father as 4th Baron Revelstoke, 26 January 1934. As a young man he was blessed with 'film star good looks', and soon after inheriting the title he married, but he was then unsuccessfully sued for breach of promise by a previous girlfriend, the actress and former Miss England, Angela Joyce, in the last action of its kind before the law was changed. He inherited his father's enthusiasm for the theatre and for real tennis, but not his aptitude for finance, and he spent just two years with Baring Bros, in Liverpool and New York.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He served in the Territorial Army in the 1930s but was wounded in 1939, and during the Second World War organised the collection and distribution of British Red Cross food supplies to Prisoners of War.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He was a lifelong versifier and composer of lyrics, and compiled a verse version of Aesop's Fables: Sir John Betjeman thought his verse 'doggerel, but good doggerel'. After the breakdown of his marriage he lived an increasingly retired but contented existence on Lambay, where visitors other than close family and friends were discouraged. In his sixty year ownership, Lambay remained an enclosed ecology, barely touched by the modern world, and became a sanctuary for seabirds, but he was responsible for the introduction of wallabies to the island, where there is now a thriving colony. He married, 1 March 1934 at Easton Neston (Northants) (sep. 1942; div. 1944), the Hon. Florence Breckinridge (k/a Flora) (1913-70), daughter of Sir Thomas&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Fermor-Hesketh, 8th bt. and later 1st Baron Hesketh, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) John Baring (1934-2003), 5th Baron Revelstoke (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) James Cecil Baring (1938-2012), 6th Baron Revelstoke (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Lambay Castle from his father in 1934 and vested it in the Revelstoke Trust for the benefit of his extended family in the 1980s.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 18 July 1994. His ex-wife married&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">2nd,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">12 April 1944, Lt-Cmdr (Arnold) Derek Arthur Lawson (1907-84) of Passenham Manor, Stony Stratford (Bucks) and had further issue two daughters,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;and died 15 September 1970.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, John (1934-2003), 5th Baron Revelstoke. </b>Elder son of Rupert Baring (1911-94), 4th Baron Revelstoke, and his wife, the Hon. Flora, daughter of Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 8th bt. and 1st Baron Hesketh, born 2 December 1934. Educated at Eton. Farmer in Kenya. He succeeded his father as 5th Baron Revelstoke, 18 July 1994. He married, 1979, Bridget Adrienne Rose (d. 1980), daughter of Joseph Patrick Ring of Dublin, but had no issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He spent much of his life in Kenya, but also spent some time at Lambay Castle after his father's death.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died in Kenya, 5 June 2003, and was cremated at Nairobi; his will was proved 23 March 2004. His wife died in 1980.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lj3PaKm_YQo/XNEmsR-_-UI/AAAAAAAAMTw/IknLWkt6IzUE2pveRz81TXUb3-_QqqNtwCLcBGAs/s1600/Baring%252C%2BJames%2BCecil%252C%2B6th%2BBaron%2BRevelstoke%2Band%2Bchildren%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="136" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lj3PaKm_YQo/XNEmsR-_-UI/AAAAAAAAMTw/IknLWkt6IzUE2pveRz81TXUb3-_QqqNtwCLcBGAs/s200/Baring%252C%2BJames%2BCecil%252C%2B6th%2BBaron%2BRevelstoke%2Band%2Bchildren%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="181" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">James Cecil Baring, <br />6th Baron Revelstoke</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, James Cecil (1938-2012), 6th Baron Revelstoke. </b>Younger son of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Rupert Baring (1911-94), 4th Baron Revelstoke, and his wife, the Hon. Flora, daughter of Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 8th bt. and 1st Baron Hesketh, born 16 August 1938. Educated at Eton and did national service in RAF, 1957-59, where he was taught to fly, afterwards becoming a display pilot for Norman Jones' Tiger Club and the Air Squadron. After leaving the RAF, he moved to London, where he bought and managed the Regent Sound Studios in Soho, which became an important recording venue for leading artists and bands in the Swinging Sixties.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> In 1974 he moved with his family to Saint-Rémy, Provence (France), where he bought a small estate, where he sought unsuccessfully to make a living producing wine, olive oil and almonds. He later turned to investing in the infrastructure underpinning the development of the Internet, but never had the financial success that he felt his foresightedness deserved. After the failure of his second marriage he returned to England, where he acted as a consultant to the Oxford Refugee Council and worked with the Employment Programme for Recovering Alcoholics and other Addicts. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He succeeded his elder brother as 6th Baron Revelstoke, 5 June 2003. He married 1st, 16 August 1968 (div. c.1978), Aneta Laline Dennis (1945-2010), younger daughter of Erskine Arthur Hamilton Fisher of Mickleham (Surrey), and 2nd, 1983 (div. 1990), Sarah, daughter of William Edward Stubbs MBE, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Alexander Rupert Baring (b. 1970), 7th Baron Revelstoke (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) The Hon. Thomas James Baring (b. 1971), born 4 December 1971; educated at Lycée Français and University of North Wales, Bangor; lives at Stone Hall, Great Mongeham (Kent);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1)&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The Hon.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Flora Aksinia Baring (b. 1983), born at Avignon (France), 17 July 1983; educated at Bryanston School; picture conservator;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.2)&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The Hon.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Miranda Louise (k/a Millie) Baring (b. 1987), born at Arles (France), 1 May 1987; educated at London School of Contemporary Music; now helping her half-brother develop a sustainable future for Lambay Island.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 7 February 2012; his will was proved 21 June 2012. His first wife married 2nd, Apr-Jun 1985, Philip Henry Robinson, and died 28 June 2010; her will was proved 9 September 2010</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. His </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">second wife is now living.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, Alexander Rupert (b. 1970), 7th Baron Revelstoke. </b>Elder son of James Cecil Baring (1938-2012), 6th Baron Revelstoke, and his first wife, Aneta Laline Dennis, younger daughter of Erskine Arthur Hamilton Fisher, born 9 April 1970. Educated at the Lycée Français, London. An officer in the army, 1992-2012 (2nd Lt., 1992; Lt., 1994; Capt., 1997; Maj., 2003; retired 2012) He succeeded his father as 7th Baron Revelstoke, 7 February 2012. He established Lambay Whiskey in 2017, and is seeking to put Lambay Island onto a more sustainable footing by opening up the family's homes there to limited holiday letting.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lives at Lambay Castle.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Now living.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sources</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Burke's Peerage and Baronetage</i>, 2003, pp. 3324-25; <i>Country Life</i>, 4 May 1912, pp. 650-58 and 26 July 1928, pp. 120-26;&nbsp;L. Weaver, <i>Houses and Gardens by E.L. Lutyens</i>, 1913, pp. 204-20; M. Baring, <i>The puppet show of memory</i>, 1922; P. Ziegler, <i>The sixth great power: Barings, 1762-1929</i>, 1988; J. Allibone, <i>George Devey</i>, 1991, pp. 68-72, 103-06, 172; A.L. Clamp, <i>The rise and fall of the Barings of Membland</i>, 2001; H. Meller, <i>The country houses of Devon</i>, 2015, pp. 673-75.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Location of archives</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b style="font-style: italic;">Baring Brothers &amp; Co. Ltd., merchant bank: </b>records, 1762-20th cent. [<a href="https://www.baringarchive.org.uk/the_archives/introduction_to_the_archives/">Barings Archive, London</a>]</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Baring of Membland and Lambay, Barons Revelstoke: </i>The main archive of this branch of the family are believed to remain in the custody of the family at Lambay Castle.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Coat of arms</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Azure, a fess or, charged with a mullet ermine upon a hurt for difference; in chief a bear's head proper, muzzled and ringed or.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can you help?</span></b></h4><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">If anyone can provide an image of Membland Hall before the enlargement by George Devey I should be most interested to see it. I would also welcome additional photographs of the interiors of Membland.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can anyone provide a photograph or portrait of the 5th Lord Revelstoke?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Revision and acknowledgements</span></b></h4><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This post was first published 9 May and updated 14 May 2019.</span><br /><br /></div></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-49007429650449221052019-04-30T17:19:00.001+01:002019-05-14T15:46:47.435+01:00(374) Baring of Howick, Barons Howick of Glendale<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>The Baring family</b></span></h3><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Although it is less than three hundred years since Johann Baring (1697-1748) first arrived in England, the Baring family has in that time become deeply embedded in the British establishment. They have accumulated five peerages and two baronetcies, and the ramifying branches of the family tree have owned many country houses for longer or shorter periods. For the purposes of this project, their story has been divided into five parts, the relationship of which is illustrated in the chart below. Sir Francis Baring (1740-1810), the 1st baronet, was the son of Johann Baring, and the lines explored in my articles on this family derive from four of his five sons. The eldest son, Sir Thomas Baring (1772-1848), 2nd bt., lived at Stratton Park (Hants), and was the progenitor of both the Earls of Northbrook, his successors at Stratton, and the Barings of Beaudesert Park, High Beach and Ardington House. The second son, Alexander Baring (1774-1848), was created 1st Baron Ashburton, and he and his successors lived at The Grange (Hants). The third son, Henry Baring (1776-1848) lived at Cromer Hall in Norfolk, although he never owned it, and from him descend the <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/05/375-baring-of-membland-house-and-lambay.html">Barons Revelstoke of Membland House and Lambay Castle</a>, and the Earls of Cromer and Barons Howick of Glendale. Finally, Sir Francis' fourth son, William Baring (1779-1820), was the ancestor of the <a href="https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/05/376-baring-of-norman-court.html">Barings of Norman Court</a>.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7Lmt7GTKJFs/XMghQdAPKXI/AAAAAAAAMRo/3X4-Z-qyn1801XrqrKlM067NFYeMz6ZeQCLcBGAs/s1600/Baring.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="1086" height="274" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7Lmt7GTKJFs/XMghQdAPKXI/AAAAAAAAMRo/3X4-Z-qyn1801XrqrKlM067NFYeMz6ZeQCLcBGAs/s640/Baring.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Simplified Baring family tree</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yRD0JNGsJbc/XMhZ8jorHOI/AAAAAAAAMRw/h0q6Ale6LTgvIr8wUwgGY6ujnb_rAiKpACLcBGAs/s1600/Baring%2Bof%2BHowick%252C%2BBarons%2BHowick%2Bof%2BGlendale.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="449" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yRD0JNGsJbc/XMhZ8jorHOI/AAAAAAAAMRw/h0q6Ale6LTgvIr8wUwgGY6ujnb_rAiKpACLcBGAs/s200/Baring%2Bof%2BHowick%252C%2BBarons%2BHowick%2Bof%2BGlendale.jpg" width="163" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baring, Barons Howick of Glendale</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This first post concerns the branch of the family which became Earls of Cromer and also Barons Howick of Glendale. Evelyn Baring (1841-1917) was the eighth son of Henry Baring (1776-1848) by his second wife, and was brought up at Cromer Hall until his mother sold it in about 1851. He was then prepared for a military life at the Ordnance School in Carshalton and the Woolwich Academy, and entered the Royal Artillery, but his real aptitude was for administration and diplomacy, and he was seconded to act as private secretary to his cousin, Lord Northbrook when he became Viceroy of India in 1872. He left the army in 1879 and after a few years in Egypt he was back in India, 1880-83 in a role which amounted to being Chancellor of the Exchequer there. The role exposed him to the complexity of balancing the expectations of the Government in London, the permanent British administrative staff on the ground, and the native population; and he learned never to be too doctrinaire or to close off all opportunity of retreating from a position which became untenable. In 1883 he was made Consul-General (in effect, Governor) of Egypt, and he held this post until 1907, when ill health made it urgently necessary for him to retire. He lived subsequently in London, and devoted the last decade of his life to political and literary writing, much of it concerned with the politics and ethics of imperialism. He had been raised to the peerage as Baron Cromer in 1892, and was advanced to Viscount in 1899 and Earl in 1901, but despite taking his title from his childhood home he never lived there again, and his successors as Earl were London-based until comparatively recently. </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1903, at the age of 62, when his sons by his first marriage were already grown men, Lord Cromer unexpectedly became a father for a third time. His youngest son, Evelyn Baring (1903-73), followed in his father's footsteps and became a colonial administrator in India until he was obliged to resign due to ill health in 1934. While recuperating in England he met and married the elder daughter of the 5th Earl Grey of Howick Hall. During the Second World War, being unfit for military service, he went into the Foreign Office, which sent him out to Africa as Governor of Southern Rhodesia and later as High Commissioner in South Africa and Governor of Kenya. In his post-war postings he had to cope with both the emergence of the apartheit regime in South Africa and the Mau-Mau uprising in Kenya. He retired in 1959 and was raised to the peerage the following year as Baron Howick of Glendale. In 1963, his wife inherited the Howick Hall estate from her father. Lord Howick was made a Knight of the Garter in 1972, but died from injuries received while rock climbing in 1973. The estate then passed to his son and heir, Charles Evelyn Baring (b. 1937), 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale. He pursued a career in banking, but after the death of his father he restored the west pavilion of Howick Hall as a new family residence and moved there permanently in 1982. Since then, he has developed the interest of the gardens, creating a major new arboretum with trees from around the world, an achievement for which he was awarded the Victoria Medal for Horticulture in 2009. The gardens are now open to the public on a regular basis.</span><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Howick Hall, Northumberland</span></b></h3><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">There was a medieval tower house or pele tower at Howick, which belonged in 1415 to Emeric Hering. It was described in 1538 as 'a little pile, a mile from the shore', and seems to have consisted of a roughly square battlemented tower of three storeys above a high basement with an external staircase rising up the basement wall to an entrance on the ground floor. In 1597 the Herings sold their property at Howick to Sir Edward Grey, whose family had owned land in the parish since 1319. By 1759, the tower house had been greatly extended to the east, with a four-storey battlemented block and beyond that a further range with gables or pediments on the south and west sides. A reused doorhead with the date 1714, which is now incorporated into the walling of the middle terrace on the south front, may indicate a date at which building work was undertaken.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B0VeNFEMUP0/XMhp7FzLZvI/AAAAAAAAMSI/qofekzXqeBAr56Op3c7k7Wc4e3Y4WYDHACLcBGAs/s1600/Howick%2BHall%2B23%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="957" height="406" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B0VeNFEMUP0/XMhp7FzLZvI/AAAAAAAAMSI/qofekzXqeBAr56Op3c7k7Wc4e3Y4WYDHACLcBGAs/s640/Howick%2BHall%2B23%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Howick Hall: the predecessor of the present house, recorded in a watercolour of 1776 by J. Thirlwall shortly before demolition. <br />Image: Collection of the Duke of Northumberland.&nbsp;</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">A drawing of 1776 hints that the house, or at least the tower, was then in fairly poor repair, and it was taken down four years later to make way for a new house, built in 1781-88 for Sir Henry Grey to the designs of William Newton (1730-98) of Newcastle-on-Tyne, after James Paine and others had been invited to submit designs. Grey owned a copy of Paine's <i>Plans, Elevations and Sections of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses </i>(1767), and the house built by Newton owes a lot to Paine's influence, not least in its general form of a central block connected by links to pavilion wings. Paine and Newton had worked together on at least two occasions (at Gibside and Blagdon Hall), and Newton succeeded Paine as the architect of alterations at Wallington Hall after 1760, so the two men probably knew one another fairly well. Grey also sought advice from experienced builders among his acquaintance in the county, and the very detailed accounts for the building of the new house show that both Sir Francis Blake of Twizel Castle, and Charles Brandling of Gosforth House exerted an influence on the design, which seems to have gone through at least three versions before Sir Henry was content. The accounts also show that the new house cost just&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">£11,313</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. Although this sum may not have included all the charges for decorating and furnishing the new house, it represented exceptional value for money: the new house was&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">William Newton's greatest commission and one of the largest in Northumberland when it was finished.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4ybvbGU6Jio/XMWvX31H6eI/AAAAAAAAMRA/6K50GBnqmhIVVepN9H_yba-e-Y3lLtWPACLcBGAs/s1600/Howick%2BHall%2B20%2BTobias%2BYoung%2BChristies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="849" data-original-width="1145" height="474" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4ybvbGU6Jio/XMWvX31H6eI/AAAAAAAAMRA/6K50GBnqmhIVVepN9H_yba-e-Y3lLtWPACLcBGAs/s640/Howick%2BHall%2B20%2BTobias%2BYoung%2BChristies.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Howick Hall: painting of 1829 by Tobias Young showing the south front of the hall, from much the same positionas the previous view.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Image: Christies.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As first built, the new house was&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">a nine-by-five bay block of three storeys, connected by single-storey straight links to five-by-five bay pavilions of two lower storeys with three-bay pediments and square lanterns. It is built of brick, finished on the outside with a skin of golden sandstone. The entrance was at first on the south side, which has a slightly-projecting three bay pedimented centre, supported on&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">giant engaged&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">unfluted</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Ionic columns, which rise from the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">rusticated ground floor. The centre windows of each part of the facade on the first floor are also pedimented. The design of the centre was derived ultimately from the facade of Palladio's Villa Capra, but was perhaps inspired more immediately by Paine's 1766 design of Bywell Hall (Northbld), which both architect and client will have known.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GJHA252BJ4o/XMXWMrEm0CI/AAAAAAAAMRg/FkMw-R7ZltsUr2QAP6E63gpJl93QLDnFwCLcBGAs/s1600/Howick%2BHall%2B7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GJHA252BJ4o/XMXWMrEm0CI/AAAAAAAAMRg/FkMw-R7ZltsUr2QAP6E63gpJl93QLDnFwCLcBGAs/s640/Howick%2BHall%2B7.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Howick Hall: the south front in recent years.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">William Newton began his career as a carpenter, working alongside his father Robert Newton as one of a group of craftsmen executing the designs of Daniel Garrett in north-east England, but by the early 1760s he had established himself as the leading builder-architect in Newcastle. He was one of the first generation of architects, alongside Carr in York, Pickford in Derby, or Keck in Gloucestershire, who made a professional design service available in the provinces. Sir Henry Grey no doubt chose the locally-based Newton rather than a higher-profile national architect like Paine for the building of his new house because he was cheaper and would give more constant attention to the project: indeed, the accounts show that&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Newton made no less than a hundred visits to the site to supervise construction during the eight years the house was being built.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Because Howick was seriously damaged by fire in 1926, the original interiors have all been lost, and they can be reconstructed only in part from <a href="https://www.watercolourworld.org/search?query=Howick+Hall&amp;displayCount=74">sketches and architectural drawings for later alterations</a>;&nbsp;but it is clear that the house had a central staircase hall approached from the entrance hall through a two-storey columned screen with Ionic pillars on the ground floor and Corinthian pillars on the first floor. The stairs themselves seem to have risen in one flight, which divided into two at the half-pace and turned through a right-angle to reach the first-floor landing. The plasterwork in the hall, drawing room and dining room was supplied by Joseph Rose &amp; Co. of York, who were the finest plasterers in the country at the time.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">At the same time as the house was rebuilt, the village of Howick was moved from its original site near the parish church and rebuilt closer to the coast. The land it had occupied became part of the landscaped grounds of the house. The precise date of these works is not known, but they had been completed by 1791, when an estate plan shows the new arrangements. The gardens were further developed by the 2nd Earl Grey in the 1830s and later.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In about 1800, Sir Henry Grey gave Howick to his brother, Charles, 1st Earl Grey, who in turn established his son (later the 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister at the time of the Great Reform Act) there. From about 1806, he began to make changes to the house, starting by moving the entrance to the north front. David Stephenson sent him a design for a circular portico here in 1806 which was evidently rejected, but after the deaths of his father and uncle he obtained designs from George Wyatt (1782-1856), a former pupil (and first cousin once removed) of the more famous James Wyatt. These involved building out a single-storey extension across the whole north side that contained a new entrance hall but was curiously described as 'the conservatory' in a letter of 1808 from Wyatt. Wyatt also enlarged the straight links to the pavilions, so that they appeared as quadrants from the south side although they remained straight-fronted from the north, and new terraces were constructed in front of the south facade, allowing the development of new gardens here.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Odlb1FyszeM/XMXOrZ96kDI/AAAAAAAAMRM/Onw3_1VavnQRUQqv5BY5FYemVLPa-k3xwCLcBGAs/s1600/Howick%2BHall%2B22.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="426" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Odlb1FyszeM/XMXOrZ96kDI/AAAAAAAAMRM/Onw3_1VavnQRUQqv5BY5FYemVLPa-k3xwCLcBGAs/s640/Howick%2BHall%2B22.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Howick Hall: the north front as remodelled in 1809 and reconstructed from 1928 onwards.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">During the First World War, the Grey family made Howick available as an emergency hospital, and themselves took a leading part in its management. At the end of the war the house was advertised to be let, but the family eventually to have returned, until in 1926 the house was badly damaged by a serious fire, which gutted the centre of the house and the top two floors. Reinstatement was carried out from 1928 by Sir Herbert Baker &amp; Scott, who reduced the size of the house by converting the large central staircase hall into a new inner courtyard at first floor level, open to the north through a classical screen of giant Tuscan columns flanked by circular and shoulder-headed windows, beneath a carved pediment which had in fact been added to this facade about twenty years earlier. They retained the early 19th century entrance hall (but reduced it a little in width, so that the big Roman Doric columns against the side walls, which once stood free, now stand close to the walls), and behind it created a new top-lit columned vestibule, the domed roof of which forms the floor of the first-floor courtyard.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">After the death of the 5th Earl Grey in 1963, the centre block of the house was abandoned, and in the 1970s the west pavilion of Newton's house was remodelled as a new family home for 2nd Baron Howick. The gardens are open to the public on a regular basis, and although internally derelict, the central block is kept wind and weathertight. The east pavilion is used as a tea room for visitors.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: Sir Edward Grey (d. 1631); to grandson, Edward Grey (d. 1653); to son, Philip Grey (d. 1666); to brother, Edward Grey (d. 1667); to brother, John Grey (d. 1681); to son, John Grey (1670-1710); to son, Sir Henry Grey (1691-1750); to son, Sir Henry Grey (1722-1808); gifted c.1800 to brother, Sir Charles Grey (d. 1807) of Fallodon Hall, 1st Baron Grey of Howick and 1st Earl Grey; to son, Charles Grey (1764-1845), 2nd Earl Grey; to son, Henry Grey (1802-94), 3rd Earl Grey; to nephew, Albert Henry George Grey (1851-1917); to son, Charles Robert Grey (1879-1963), 5th Earl Grey; to daughter, Lady Mary Cecil Grey (1907-2002), wife of Evelyn Baring (1903-73), 1st Baron Howick of Glendale; to son, Charles Evelyn Baring (b. 1937), 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale.</i></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Baring family, Barons Howick of Glendale</span></b></h3><br /><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vV6otHjRVWU/XMheYQy0V2I/AAAAAAAAMSA/Aay8rnROR-QN1iEopj5JvAtEljq11iDxQCLcBGAs/s1600/Baring%252C%2BEvelyn%252C%2B1st%2BEarl%2Bof%2BCromer%2B1913.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="616" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vV6otHjRVWU/XMheYQy0V2I/AAAAAAAAMSA/Aay8rnROR-QN1iEopj5JvAtEljq11iDxQCLcBGAs/s320/Baring%252C%2BEvelyn%252C%2B1st%2BEarl%2Bof%2BCromer%2B1913.jpg" width="246" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer.<br />Image: National Portrait Gallery.<br />&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Some rights reserved</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, Evelyn (1841-1917), 1st Earl of Cromer. </b>Eighth son of Henry Baring (1776-1848) [for whom see my forthcoming post on the Barings of Membland and Lambay, Barons Revelstoke] and his second wife, Cecilia Anne (d. 1874), eldest daughter of Vice-Adm. William Windham of Cromer Hall (Norfk), born 26 February 1841. Educated at Ordnance School, Carshalton and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. An officer in the Royal Artillery, 1858-79 (Capt., 1870; Maj., 1876; retired, 1879). Private Secretary to his cousin, the 1st Earl of Northbrook as Viceroy of India, 1872-76, where his influence was such that he became known as 'the Vice-Viceroy'; Commissioner for Egyptian public debt, 1877-79; English joint Controller-General for Egypt, 1879-80; Financial Member of Council to Viceroy of India, 1880-83; Consul-General and Minister Plenipotentiary in Egypt, 1883-1907. Through thirty years of colonial administration, he came to believe in Britain's 'manifest destiny' as a colonial power, but felt that imperialism must be conducted in accordance with the code of Christian morality, and must make the</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> 'self-interest of the subject race... the principal basis of the whole Imperial fabric', though these were not conditions which he ever had the luxury of putting to the test. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He was appointed CSI, 1876; CIE, 1880; KCSI, 1883; CB, 1885; KCB, 1887; GCMG, 1888; GCB, 1895 and OM, 1906, and was created Baron Cromer, 20 June 1892; Viscount Cromer, 25 January 1899 and Viscount Errington and Earl of Cromer, 8 August 1901. He was made a Privy Councillor, 1900; received honorary degrees from Oxford (DCL, 1904) and Cambridge (LLD, 1905); and was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1907. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the British Academy, and was awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts, 1908. He also received the Ottoman Order of the Medjidie (1st class). Author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Modern Egypt </i><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1908); </span><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Ancient and Modern Imperialism </i><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1910); and a series of political and literary essays which were collected in three volumes (1913-16), in which he sought to distil his political philosophy. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He married 1st, 28 June 1876, Ethel (d. 1898), daughter and co-heir of Sir Rowland Stanley Errington, 11th bt., and 2nd, 22 October 1901, Lady (Katherine) Georgiana Louisa (1865-1933), daughter of John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Rowland Thomas Baring (1877-1958), 2nd Earl of Cromer, born 29 November 1877; suffered from ill health throughout his life after a childhood attack of typhoid; educated at Eton, but left early to study foreign languages; an officer in the diplomatic service, 1900-11 (serving in Cairo, Teheran and St. Petersburg) and subsequently in the Foreign Office (Private Secretary to Principal Under-Secretary, 1907-11); he joined Baring Bros bank briefly as a managing director, 1913-14, but with the outbreak of the First World War joined the special reserve of the Grenadier Guards, 1914-20 (Lt.). He acted as ADC to successive Viceroys of India, 1915-16 and then became Equerry and Asst. Private Secretary to King George V, 1916-20; he acted as Chief of Staff to the Duke of Connaught and the Prince of Wales in India, 1920-22 and then joined the Royal Household as Lord Chamberlain, 1922-38 and a Permanent Lord-in-Waiting, 1938-53; he served as a British Government director of the Suez Canal Company, 1926, and was a director of London &amp; Lancashire Insurance Co., the Marine Insurance Co. (Dep. Chairman, 1938; Chairman, 1939), P&amp;O, British India Steam Navigation Co, the National Provincial Bank, Lloyds, and the National Provincial Foreign Bank;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">he was Receiver-General of the Order of St. John, 1943-47;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">vice-president of Gordon Memorial College and President of the MCC, 1934-35; married, 4 April 1908, Lady Ruby Florence Mary GCStJ (1886-1961), second daughter of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;4th Earl of Minto, and had issue one son (the 3rd Earl) and two daughters; died 13 May 1953; his will was proved 14 July 1953 (estate £52,988);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Hon. Windham Baring (1880-1922), born 29 September 1880; managing director of Baring Bros; director of Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway; served in First World War with Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Lt.); married, 10 July 1913, Lady Gweneth Frida JP (1888-1984) (who married 2nd, 4 February 1926, Col. Ralph Henry Voltelin Cavendish CBE MVO DL (d. 1968 and had further issue), daughter of Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough and had issue three sons; died 28 December 1922; will proved 21 February 1923 (estate £209,733);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1) Evelyn Baring (1903-73), 1st Baron Howick of Glendale (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived abroad until retiring in 1907, and thereafter in Wimpole St., London.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 29 January 1917 and was buried at Bournemouth (Hants); his will was proved 24 April 1917 (estate £117,608). His first wife died in Cairo (Egypt), 16 October 1898 and was buried at Bournemouth</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">; administration of her goods with will annexed was granted 15 December 1898 (estate £1,968). His widow died 4 March 1933; administration of her goods with will annexed was granted to her son, 21 April 1933 (estate £16,656).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qwzswmzz4ZQ/XMhdjx1VpXI/AAAAAAAAMR4/gQKKe-WfTVYS57RE2CXJsGW2oXO-1U2vgCLcBGAs/s1600/Baring%252C%2BEvelyn%252C%2B1st%2BBaron%2BHowick%2Bof%2BGlendale.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="570" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qwzswmzz4ZQ/XMhdjx1VpXI/AAAAAAAAMR4/gQKKe-WfTVYS57RE2CXJsGW2oXO-1U2vgCLcBGAs/s320/Baring%252C%2BEvelyn%252C%2B1st%2BBaron%2BHowick%2Bof%2BGlendale.jpg" width="228" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evelyn Baring (1903-73),&nbsp;1st Baron Howick of Glendale<br />Image: National Portrait Gallery.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Some rights reserved</a><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, Evelyn (1903-73), 1st Baron Howick of Glendale. </b>Only child of Evelyn Baring (1841-1917), 1st Earl of Cromer, and his second wife, Lady (Katherine) Georgiana Louisa, daughter of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, born 29 September 1903. Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford (BA 1924; MA 1928; Hon. Fellow, 1960). An officer in the Indian Civil Service, 1926-34; Secretary to Agent of the Government of India in South Africa, 1929; retired on grounds of ill health, 1934 and joined Barings Bank for a short period; then became&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">managing director of the Sudan Plantation Syndicate; with the outbreak of the Second World War he was unfit for military service and joined the Foreign Office, being appointed</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;Governor of Southern Rhodesia, 1942-44, UK High Commissioner for South Africa, Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland, 1944-51; and Governor of Kenya, 1952-59, where he served throughout the Mau-Mau Crisis; Chairman of the East Africa Commission, 1952-59; member of the Commonwealth Development Corporation, 1960-72 (Deputy Chairman, 1960-61; Chairman, 1961-72). He was a Director of Swan Hunter Shipbuilding and Wigram Richardson and served as a member of the Nature Conservancy from 1961 (Chairman, 1963), the governing body of the School of Oriental &amp; African Studies, London University, 1961-68, and was president of the Centre for International Briefing, 1972. He was a DL for Northumberland, was appointed KCMG, 1942, KCVO, 1947, GCMG, 1955 and KG, 1972, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Howick of Glendale, 8 February 1960. He was awarded an honorary degree by Newcastle University (DCL, 1968). He married, 24 April 1935, Lady Mary Cecil (1907-2002), elder daughter of Charles Robert Grey, 5th Earl Grey, of Howick Hall (Northbld.), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Hon. Katherine Mary Alice Baring&nbsp; (b. 1936), born 30 March 1936; married, December 1974, as his third wife, Sir (Edward) Humphrey Tyrell Wakefield (b. 1936), 2nd bt., of Chillingham Castle (Northbld.), and had issue one son and one daughter;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Charles Evelyn Baring (b. 1937), 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Hon. Elizabeth Beatrice Baring (b. 1940), born 10 January 1940; married, 15 January 1962, Capt. Nicholas Albany Gibbs (d. 1984) of 9th Royal Lancers, and had issue one son and two daughters;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>His wife inherited her ancestral seat of Howick Hall from her father in 1963, but they did not live in the house, preferring the dower house of Howick Grange.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died as a result of fall while rock climbing, 10 March 1973; his will was proved 5 July 1973 (estate £249,880). His widow died 21 March 2002.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Baring, Charles Evelyn (b. 1937), 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale. </b>Only son of Evelyn Baring (1903-73), 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, and his wife Lady Mary Cecil, elder daughter of Charles Robert Grey, 5th Earl Grey, of Howick Hall (Northbld.), born 30 December 1937. Educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. A director of Barings Bank, 1969-82 and Northern Rock plc, 1987-2001. He served as a member of the executive committee of the National Art Collections Fund. A keen botanist, he was awarded the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society for his work in developing the arboretum at Howick Hall into 'the largest private collection of wild trees in Britain'. He married, 11 April 1964, Clare Nicolette, younger daughter of Col. Cyril Darby MC of Kemerton Court (Worcs), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Hon. Rachel Monica Baring (b. 1967), born 29 June 1967; married, 1989, Capt. (George Charles) Nicholas Lane Fox, son of George Lane Fox of Bramham Park (Yorks WR) and had issue four sons and one daughter;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Hon. Jessica Mary Clare Baring (b. 1969), born 8 October 1969; married, 2 September 1995, Marcus Laithwaite of Sydney (Australia), eldest son of Paul Laithwaite of Deeside House, Chester, and had issue one son and two daughters;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Hon. Alice Olivia Baring (b. 1971), born 17 March 1971; married, 2000, Christian Rupert Francis Ward Thomas of The Lodge, Bradfield St. Clare (Suffk), and had issue three sons;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Hon. David Evelyn Charles Baring (b. 1975), born 26 March 1975; lives at Howick Grange; married, Apr-Jun 2003, Victoria Jane Sutherland (b. 1974), only daughter of Owen Sutherland, and had issue two sons.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>After the death of his father in 1973, he converted the west wing of Howick Hall into a new family home, and moved there in 1982. Since then he has developed the gardens and arboretum into a significant tourist attraction.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Now living.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sources</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Burke's Peerage and Baronetage</i>, 2003, pp. 981-82, 1990; Northumberland County History Committee, <i>A history of Northumberland</i>, vol. 2, 1893, pp. 345-59; F. Graham, <i>The old halls, houses and inns of Northumberland</i>, 1977, pp. 155-57; Sir N. Pevsner, I. Richmond et al., <i>The buildings of England: Northumberland</i>, 2nd edn., 1992, p. 352; R. Pears, '</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">William Newton (1730-1798) and the Development of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">the Architectural Profession in North-East England', PhD thesis, Newcastle Univ., 2013; R. Pears, 'Building Howick Hall', <i>Georgian Group Journal</i>, 2016, pp. 117-34; ODNB entries on 1st &amp; 2nd Earls of Cromer and 1st Baron Howick of Glendale.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Location of archives</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Baring, Evelyn (1841-1917), 1st Earl of Cromer: </i>correspondence and papers, 1863-1917 [The National Archives, FO633]; drafts of <i>Modern Egypt</i>&nbsp;and related papers, early 20th cent. [The British Library, Manuscript Collections,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Add MSS 44903-11]</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Baring, Sir Evelyn (1903-73), 1st Baron Howick of Glendale: </i>personal and political notebooks, correspondence and papers, 1926-72 [Durham University Library, Special Collections, GRE-1]</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Coat of arms</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Azure, a fess or charged with an eastern crown azure, as a mark of difference in chief a boar's head couped proper, muzzled and ringed or.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can you help?</span></b></h4><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can anyone provide an image of the north front of Howick Hall prior to the 1926 fire?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Revision and acknowledgements&nbsp;</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This post was first published 30 April 2019 and was updated 14 May 2019.</span></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-50710796839420402302019-04-26T12:04:00.000+01:002019-04-27T07:12:06.018+01:00(373) Barham of Snape House and Hole Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-po2GfrixV2s/XMHYyAGTbJI/AAAAAAAAMQY/oCl01oeiIPszsX8LYTdm8oc54gw-rLCJACLcBGAs/s1600/Barham%2Bof%2BHole%2BPark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-po2GfrixV2s/XMHYyAGTbJI/AAAAAAAAMQY/oCl01oeiIPszsX8LYTdm8oc54gw-rLCJACLcBGAs/s200/Barham%2Bof%2BHole%2BPark.jpg" width="166" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barham of Hole Park</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The Barham family were copyhold tenants of lands at Wadhurst by 1441 if not earlier and they probably rose in social status during the 16th century, when they became ironmasters at Wadhurst and elsewhere in the Sussex Weald. The most notable of these early Barhams was Nicholas Barham (c.1525-77), a lawyer who became Queen's Serjeant-at-Law and conducted the prosecution of the Duke of Norfolk for treason in 1571. Nicholas Barham had two uncles, from whom descended separate branches of the Barham family. The descendants of John Barham (d. 1555) of Shoosmiths in Wadhurst ended with another John Barham, who was High Sheriff of Sussex in 1701, and we are concerned here with the descendants of William Barham (d. by 1548), who moved several times over the succeeding generations between villages in the Sussex and Kentish Weald, where they were yeomen farmers and ironmasters. After eight generations, the representative of this branch of the family was Robert Barham of Battle (Sussex), dairy farmer, who was born in 1767 and died in 1842. His youngest son, also Robert Barham (1807-88), with whom the genealogy below begins, moved to London, where he seems to have worked in the licensed trade until, sometime in the 1830s, he opened a retail dairy in the Strand. This Robert had two sons who survived to maturity. The elder, yet another Robert Barham (1830-85), went to sea, and worked as a ship's mate in the mercantile marine, although in his later years he seems to have taken over the management of the Strand dairy business from his father, where he was living over the shop at the time of the 1881 census. He predeceased his father, and rather curiously was almost penniless at the time of his death, although when his father died three years later he was comfortably off. The other son, later Sir George Barham (1836-1913), kt., was apprenticed to a cabinet maker but spent his evenings doing milk deliveries for his father's shop. He seems to have been of an entrepreneurial cast of mind, and at the tender age of 22 established his own dairy business, which developed into the firm Express Dairies Ltd.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> In the days before refrigeration, milk went off very quickly, and was normally transported only a few miles. George recognised the potential of the railway network to bring milk quickly over much longer distances if the transport to the railhead and the distribution in London could be organised efficiently. To help with the first, he invented a standardised milk churn, which farmers could easily deliver to their local station. He negotiated cheap rates for transport with the rail companies, using spare capacity on early morning trains (hence the 'milk train' mentioned so much in early 20th century novels). And in London he worked with the railway companies to build dedicated sidings and sheds where the milk could be quality controlled and packaged for delivery through a network of local deliverymen. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fvQRphdgfaI/XMLVTy_p8LI/AAAAAAAAMQo/mB05e-rrfdACmda23j875GhSR7uye1IKQCLcBGAs/s1600/Sudbury%2BLodge%252C%2BWembley%2B1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="1593" height="183" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fvQRphdgfaI/XMLVTy_p8LI/AAAAAAAAMQo/mB05e-rrfdACmda23j875GhSR7uye1IKQCLcBGAs/s320/Sudbury%2BLodge%252C%2BWembley%2B1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sudbury Lodge, Wembley: the home of George T. Barham</td></tr></tbody></table>The business flourished and made Sir George and his sons wealthy men, and in due course the firm was divided, with the elder son, George Titus Barham (1860-1937) taking on the retail side of the business, Express Dairies Ltd., and the younger son, Col. Arthur Saxby Barham (1869-1952), taking on the wholesale side as the Dairy Supply Co., which in 1915 he merged with other firms to form United Dairies. The family moved out of the city to the fashionable suburb of Hampstead, and in the 1880s Sir George acquired a mid 19th century villa called Sudbury Lodge at Wembley, which became the home of G.T. Barham. In his last years, as a wealthy businessman with no children to provide for, G.T. Barham gifted the house and its grounds to the new Wembley Borough Council, on the condition that they took care of it. Unfortunately, the Second World War intervened, the grounds were used as a training ground for the territorial army, and the untenanted house decayed. By the mid-1950s it was estimated that it would cost £18,000 to restore the house, and the council decided simply to demolish it: it was finally pulled down in 1957, and the grounds are now Barham Park.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1885, Sir George Barham (as he became in 1904) bought the Snape estate at Wadhurst which had once belonged to his family, and between 1893 and 1902 he built a comfortable if somewhat frenetically asymmetrical new house there, where he lived until his death in 1913. It then passed to his younger son, Col. A.S. Barham, but since he had already bought the considerably larger Hole Park at Rolvenden (Kent) for himself, he did not need Snape. He accordingly let it to short-term tenants who mostly occupied it for a year or two. The most romantic of the tenants was perhaps&nbsp;Natalie Sergeyevna, Countess Brasova, the widow of Grand Duke Michael of Russia, who lived here in 1919-20, not long after her husband was murdered by the Soviet government in 1917. After the First World War, Col. Barham applied himself to the creation of a fine garden at Hole Park, which he first opened to the public in 1927, and which it is said has been open every year since on one basis or another.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">When Col. Barham died in 1952 he left both Hole Park and Snape to his grandson, David Barham (b. 1926). After ten years in which limited repairs and maintenance had been possible, both houses were in poor repair, and the decision was made to sell Snape and to use the proceeds to pay for the reduction of Hole Park to a more manageable size. In the end the wings and top storey added in about 1830 were removed, and the centre of the house was returned to something like its original Georgian appearance. In about 2003 the house and estate were handed over to David's son, Edward Barham (b. 1962), who continues to manage the estate and open the gardens to the public.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Snape House, Wadhurst, Sussex</span></b></h3><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HEP_qWCCyeE/XL8R5ZqGYII/AAAAAAAAMPw/FWl1o5_P4CQBq19h8D_D8A5XNNj6G9nmwCLcBGAs/s1600/Snape%2BHouse%252C%2BWadhurst%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1024" height="418" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HEP_qWCCyeE/XL8R5ZqGYII/AAAAAAAAMPw/FWl1o5_P4CQBq19h8D_D8A5XNNj6G9nmwCLcBGAs/s640/Snape%2BHouse%252C%2BWadhurst%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Snape House: the south front in 2019.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Snape is first mentioned in about 1200, when it was given to Battle Abbey, which held it until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. After that it passed to the Barham family of ironmasters, and David Barham is said to have built a new house here in 1617. It passed out of Barham ownership in 1721 and was in other hands until in 1885&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">it was bought back by Sir George Barham. He kept the old farmhouse as service accommodation, and attached it to a new house,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;built</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;in two phases between 1893 and 1902 to the designs of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Robert Whellock of London</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. The main front to the south is an irregular and rather chaotic composition that has a stone porch tower with a pyramidal roof near the left hand end, and an array of gables with tile-hanging and obviously fake half-timbering. The interiors contain a great deal of contemporary wood panelling, but also a surprisingly delicate and convincing Adam-style plaster ceiling in the former morning room.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Alongside his development of the house, Barham restored and altered a large 15th or 16th century barn close to the house, which he made into his baronial hall, and built a new stable block and coach house with a turret clock dated 1905. To complement the hall, he laid out a sunken garden enclosed by walls that incorporate the original cast iron railings made c.1700 for St. Paul's Cathedral by a Gloucester founder, which he bought from the Cathedral in 1896 for £10. Gates from the same source were installed between the gatepiers at the end of the drive. The barn was converted by the architect Bernard Frankland Dark&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">into a house</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;for his own use</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;in 1959 and remains in separate ownership.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: sold 1885 to Sir George Barham (1836-1913), kt.; to son, Col. Arthur Saxby Barham (1869-1952) of Hole Park, who let it in the 1920s and 1930s to tenants including</i></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i> Natalie Sergeyevna, Countess Brasova, the widow of Grand Duke Michael of Russia</i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">...sold 1955...sold 1965 to Barry Hamblin; to son, Bryce Hamblin, who sold 2005 to Anthony Joseph Williams (b. 1950); for sale again 2019.</i><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Hole Park, Rolvenden, Kent</span></b></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">A brick house</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">probably built for Phillips Gybbon MP (1678-1762), who inherited in 1719.</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;It is a low building of two storeys and nine bays, with the facade stepping forward twice to the centre bay; the central five bays are unusually narrow and closely spaced.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Before 1838, Thomas Gybbon Monypenny made large additions comprising wings to either side, tall Tudor-style chimneys, and a gabled extra storey; the identity of his architect is unknown.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GPlP-thXkfI/XMPyHajwekI/AAAAAAAAMQw/eo6IctI8FC8M8_ci-PWe2CWx3qBqVRhGwCLcBGAs/s1600/Hole%2BPark%252C%2BRolvenden%2B7%2B1838.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="601" height="450" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GPlP-thXkfI/XMPyHajwekI/AAAAAAAAMQw/eo6IctI8FC8M8_ci-PWe2CWx3qBqVRhGwCLcBGAs/s640/Hole%2BPark%252C%2BRolvenden%2B7%2B1838.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Hole Park, Rolvenden: an engraving of 1838, showing the house soon after enlargement, but without the semi-timbering in the gables that was added later in the 19th century.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yjY_JWuHEYQ/XL8fKV-6jOI/AAAAAAAAMP4/MnGpVSzQNNMyFLEnv9SL2SbNpUVTWOTFgCLcBGAs/s1600/Hole%2BPark%252C%2BRolvenden%2B1%2B1908.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="1010" height="290" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yjY_JWuHEYQ/XL8fKV-6jOI/AAAAAAAAMP4/MnGpVSzQNNMyFLEnv9SL2SbNpUVTWOTFgCLcBGAs/s640/Hole%2BPark%252C%2BRolvenden%2B1%2B1908.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Hole Park in 1908, with the semi-timbering added by Frank Morrison in place.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Monypenny ran out of funds in the 1840s, and sold the estate in 1849 to the millionaire financier, James Morrison (1789-1857), who gave it to his son, Frank Morrison (1824-1904). Morrison must have been responsible for building the Arts &amp; Crafts style stable and cottage block close to the house, adding the Victorian timber-framing to the gables of the house, and for building the late cottage orné lodge at the end of the drive; once again no architect is known. Morrison died without issue and left the estate to trustees, who sold it in 1911 to Col. Arthur Saxby Barham (1869-1952)</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, who laid out elaborate gardens around the house in the 1920s. These have been open to the public every year since 1927, and have been further developed by subsequent generations. In 1959,&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">when David Barham decided to live here, he removed the 19th century additions to the house, making it a great deal smaller and more manageable; he also restored the Georgian part of the house and gave it a new hipped roof.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6Dsw65OXWLo/XL8fcTtIZNI/AAAAAAAAMQA/mXX-ei5A5U03gzV9THkACBvU9O4mC4EBQCLcBGAs/s1600/Hole%2BPark%252C%2BRolvenden%2B4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="800" height="428" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6Dsw65OXWLo/XL8fcTtIZNI/AAAAAAAAMQA/mXX-ei5A5U03gzV9THkACBvU9O4mC4EBQCLcBGAs/s640/Hole%2BPark%252C%2BRolvenden%2B4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Hole Park in 2018, after the removal of the 19th century additions in 1959.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Descent: Maj. John Gybbon (d. 1707); to brother, Robert Gybbon (d. 1719); to son, Phillips Gybbon MP (1678-1762); to daughter, Catherine (d. 1775), wife of Philip Jodrell; to her friend, Mary Jefferson (d. 1804), later the wife of John Beardsworth; to Sylvestra Hutton; to nephew, Thomas Gybbon Monypenny (d. 1865); sold 1849 to James Morrison (1789-1857); to son, Frank Morrison (1824-1904)... sold 1911 to Col. Arthur Saxby Barham (1869-1952); to grandson, David George Wilfrid Barham (b. 1926); to son, Edward George Barham (b. 1962).</i><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Barham family of Snape House and Hole Park</span></b></h3><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barham, Robert (1807-88). </b>Youngest son of Robert Barham (1767-1842) of Battle (Sussex), dairy farmer, and his wife Mary (d. 1842), daughter of Richard Mepham of Battle, born 13 July 1807. In the 1820s and 1830s he seems to have worked as a licensed victualler in the city of London, but in about 1830 he also established a retail dairy business at 272 Strand, London. He married, 22 March 1830 at St Edmund King &amp; Martyr, Lombard St., London, Altezeera Henrietta (1812-86), daughter of George Davey, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Robert Barham (1830-85), born 14 September and baptised at Shoreditch (Middx), 18 November 1830; an officer in the mercantile marine (mate) and later dairyman; married 28 November 1859 at St. Kilda, Melbourne (Australia), Janet (d. 1881), daughter of Allan Ferguson of Stairdam, Perth (Scotland), and had issue one son and two daughters; died 19 October 1885; will proved 19 November 1885 (effects £53);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Eliza Ann Barham (b. 1832), born 14 July and baptised at St Stephen, Coleman St., London, 7 October 1832; died in infancy;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) George Barham (1835-36), baptised at St Dunstan-in-the-West, London, 28 June 1835; died in infancy;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Sir George Barham (1836-1913), kt. (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 10 December 1888; his will was proved 4 May 1889 (effects £7,892). His wife died 5 April 1886.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0vn5LoVzKoY/XMHFMrj3p7I/AAAAAAAAMQQ/9l4_vNf_sXgei6FI8hvDyYz8Ktqo_eZHQCLcBGAs/s1600/Barham%252C%2BSir%2BGeorge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="429" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0vn5LoVzKoY/XMHFMrj3p7I/AAAAAAAAMQQ/9l4_vNf_sXgei6FI8hvDyYz8Ktqo_eZHQCLcBGAs/s320/Barham%252C%2BSir%2BGeorge.jpg" width="222" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sir George Barham (1836-1913), kt.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barham, Sir George (1836-1913), kt. </b>Younger surviving son of Robert Barham (1807-88) and his wife&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Altazeera Henrietta, daughter of George Davey of Bletchley (Bucks),</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;born 22 November 1836 and baptised at St Dunstan-in-the-West, London, 4 June 1837. As a young man, he was apprenticed to a London cabinet maker, but delivered milk for his parents in the evenings, and in 1858 he founded the Express Dairy Co., which 'saved London from a milk famine' in 1865 when cattle plague was decimating local supplies; he began importing milk by rail from outside London and used a network of local deliverymen to take it to customers. The business grew so rapidly that specialist facilities were established by the railway companies for handling milk in bulk; the large scale of operation also led him to invent standardised metal churns for the transport of milk which were a familiar sight in the countryside until comparatively recently. Barham traded on the purity and cleanliness of his milk and cream and in 1868 opened College Farm, Finsbury as a showplace for his livestock and equipment and a training venue for his staff. By the late 19th century, the firm was much the largest dairy retailer in London, and it was subsequently divided into two firms, each headed by one of his surviving sons: the Dairy Supply Company, which took over the wholesaling business and manufactured dairy machinery, and the retail business, which retained the Express name. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">For over half a century Sir George endeavoured to raise public awareness of the importance of cleanliness in food processing. He was a member of the Government's Milk Standards Committee from 1900, and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">supported those working to improve drainage and purify the water supply</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. He was President of the International Dairy Congress in Copenhagen (Denmark), 1897, and was knighted in 1904. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">County Councillor for East Sussex, 1904-10;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;Mayor of Hampstead (Middx), 1905-06; High Sheriff of Middlesex, 1907-08. In 1895 he stood unsuccessfully for parliament as a Unionist candidate in the West Islington constituency. He married, 22 June 1859 at Spilsby (Lincs), Margaret (d. 1906), daughter of Jarvis Rainey of Spilsby, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) George Titus Barham (1860-1937) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Herbert Rainey Barham (1862-78), born 31 December 1862 and baptised at St Andrew, Holborn (Middx), 12 April 1863; died young in Rome, 28 April 1878;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Ernest Edward Barham (1864-67), born 13 August and baptised at St Andrew, Holborn, 25 September 1864; died young, 15 April 1867;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Frank Handbury Barham (1866-68), born 27 December 1866 and baptised at St Andrew, Holborn, 31 March 1867; died in infancy, 26 April and was buried at Nunbury Cemetery, London, 30 April 1868;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Col. Arthur Saxby Barham (1869-1952) (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Danehurst, Hampstead and Sudbury Lodge, Wembley. In 1885 he purchased Snape House, Wadhurst, which he largely rebuilt between 1893 and 1902.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 16 November 1913; his will was proved 1 January 1914 (estate £259,222). His wife died 14 April 1906; administration of her goods was granted to her husband, 14 May 1906 (estate £965).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cIlgJzU4Pfk/XMGuUou6CSI/AAAAAAAAMQI/ypFt8_84Kp8bpo1dF1LlNOZ1Av8FlwzwQCLcBGAs/s1600/Barham%252C%2BGeorge%2BTitus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="438" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cIlgJzU4Pfk/XMGuUou6CSI/AAAAAAAAMQI/ypFt8_84Kp8bpo1dF1LlNOZ1Av8FlwzwQCLcBGAs/s200/Barham%252C%2BGeorge%2BTitus.jpg" width="175" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">G.T. Barham (1860-1937)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barham, George Titus (1860-1937). </b>Eldest son of Sir George Barham (1836-1913), kt. and his wife Margaret,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">daughter of Jarvis Rainey of Spilsby (Lincs), born 22 March 1860. Educated at University College School. He succeeded his father as Chairman of the Express Dairy Co. in 1913. He expanded the business greatly, continuing his father's work to make it a leader in hygienic milk production, with a chain of collecting and cooling stations across the country. Through the firm he also owned seven dairy farms, and was a breeder of Guernsey cows and a judge at the chief agricultural shows. In 1884 he was one of the founder members of the Guernsey Cattle Society, and served as its Treasurer until his death; he was also President in 1918 and 1934; he also served as President of the British Kerry Cattle Society, the Dexter Society, the Dairy Trade Protection Society, and, in 1933-34, of the British Dairy Farmers Association.&nbsp;He was a collector in several different fields and had a large private museum in his house at Sudbury Lodge, Wembley, which he presented with its grounds to Wembley Borough Council subject to a life tenancy. He was a Freemason and served as Master of Hampstead Lodge; he was also a keen horseman and reserved some time every morning for riding before going to work. He married, 29 April 1897, Florence Elizabeth (1875-1953), daughter of William Peter Vosper of Plympton (Devon), but had no issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Sudbury Park, Wembley (Middx) and substantially improved the house, which he bequeathed to Wembley Borough Council, with instructions to look after it carefully: after becoming derelict during and after the Second World War they demolished it in 1957. The site is now Barham Park.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 8 July 1937; his will was proved 17 September 1937 and 6 January 1938 (estate £523,536). His widow died 1 April 1953; her will was proved 23 May 1953 (estate £16,121).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barham, Col. Arthur Saxby (1869-1952). </b>Youngest&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">son of Sir George Barham (1836-1913), kt. and his wife Margaret,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">daughter of Jarvis Rainey of Spilsby (Lincs), born 17 July 1869. Educated at University College School. Managing Director of Dairy Supply Co., which in 1915 amalgamated with other businesses to form United Dairies Ltd; was involved actively in the management of this firm until 1923 and remained a director until his death. Lt-Col. (hon. Col.) of the 19th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, and Col. commanding 12th Battn, London Regiment; served in the First World War, 1914-17; appointed CMG, 1918. JP for Kent from 1922, and a County Councillor and later County Alderman for Kent, 1925-27 and 1938-49; Chairman of the Governors of Cranbrook School. He married 1st, 5 July 1893, Annie Gertrude (1867-1939), daughter of Edward Henry Edwards of Hampstead (Middx) and 2nd, 6 February 1940 at St Paul's Cathedral, London, Anna Marie (c.1887-1941), nurse, daughter of Conrad Schaufelberger of Zurich (Switzerland), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Capt. Wilfrid Saxby Barham (1894-1915), born 14 November 1894 and baptised at Christ Church, Hampstead, 2 February 1895; educated at Malvern College and Clare College, Cambridge; an officer in 3rd battn, East Kent Regiment (Capt.); died of wounds received in heavy shelling at Ypres, 10 October 1915, and was buried at Poperinghe New Military Cemetery (Belgium); will proved 19 February 1916 (estate £4,361);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Harold Arthur Barham (1898-1978) (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He purchased Hole Park, Rolvenden in 1911 and laid out elaborate gardens there in the 1920s. He inherited Snape House from his father but leased it out.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 16 July 1952; administration of his goods was granted to his son, 17 January 1953 (estate £46,897). His first wife died 1 May 1939 and was buried at Rolvenden; her will was proved September 1939 (estate £2,724). His second wife died 18 August 1941; her will was proved 2 January 1942 (estate £3,612).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barham, Harold Arthur (1898-1978). </b>Younger but only surviving son of Col. Arthur Saxby Barham (1869-1952) and his first wife, Annie Gertrude,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">daughter of Edward Henry Edwards of Hampstead (Middx), born 24 May 1898. Educated at Malvern College and Clare College, Cambridge (BA 1920). County Councillor for Kent, 1937. He married 1st, 25 August 1920 at Rolvenden (div. 1934), Edith Dulcie (1900-89), daughter of Lt-Col. Robert James Frederick Taylor CBE, and 2nd, 27 February 1935, Patricia Elizabeth (k/a Peggy) (1906-92), daughter of Capt. Valentine Edmund Garrett of Aldeburgh (Suffk), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Ruth Dulcie Barham (b. 1921), born 26 July 1921; served in Second World War with WRNS; married, 3 April 1945 at the Church of the Redemption, New Delhi (India), John Litton Skinner (c.1920-2015) of St. John (Jersey), banker and formerly an officer in the Royal Navy (Lt-Cmdr.), son of Lt-Col. Thomas Burrel Skinner, and had issue one son and three daughters;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Daphne Margaret Barham (1923-2018), born 16 March 1923; married, 17 September 1949 at Rolvenden, Jeffrey Maurice Browning (1922-2016) of Nut Tree Hall, Plaxtol (Kent), son of (William) Maurice Browning of Olivers Hill, Frankston, Victoria (Australia), and had issue two sons and one daughter; died 25 June 2018; will proved 30 January 2019;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.3) David George Wilfrid Barham (b. 1926) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1) John Nicholas Barham (1937-55), born 24 July 1937; died as a result of a motor accident, 24 August 1955; administration of goods granted to his father, 8 March 1957 (estate £1,443); an historic windmill at Rolvenden was restored in his memory in 1956;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.2) Patricia Barham (b. 1940), born 5 March 1940; married, 11 June 1960, David Talbot Henry Davenport, elder son of Ormus Neville Talbot Davenport and had issue one son and two daughters;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.3) Elizabeth Ann Barham (b. 1943), born 17 July 1943; married, 8 July 1967, John Hurley Marshall (1934-94) of Little Mynthurst Farm, Norwood Hill (Surrey), twin son of J.H. Marshall of Brockenhurst (Hants), but had no issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Under Ridge, Bourne End (Bucks) and later at The Mint House, Rye (Sussex) and Lansdell House, Rolvenden.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 17 May 1978; his will was proved 8 August 1978 (estate £508,963). His first wife married second, 1941, Eustace Kingsmill Brown (1880-1974) and died 4 April 1989; her will was proved 18 July 1989 (estate £83,349). His widow died 9 April 1992; her will was proved 20 November 1992 (estate £772,361).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barham, David George Wilfrid (b. 1926). </b>Only son of Harold Arthur Barham (1898-1978) and his first wife, Edith Dulcie,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">daughter of Lt-Col. Robert James Frederick Taylor CBE, born 6 October 1926. Educated at Malvern College. He was an officer in the Royal Horse Guards (2nd Lt., 1946). JP (from 1961) for Kent and County Councillor for Kent, 1959-70; High Sheriff of Kent, 1974-75. He married, 28 October 1955, (Catherine) Margaret (b. 1936), daughter of Lt.-Col. Rixon Bucknall MBE of Mayfield (Sussex), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Jennifer Catherine Barham (b. 1957), born 8 January 1957; married 1st, 1977 (div. 1986), Simon Francis Mann (b. 1952), son of Maj. Francis George Mann, and had issue two sons and one daughter; married 2nd, 1986, Richard Douglas Schuster (b. 1953) of The Grange, Over Worton (Oxon), adopted son of Maj. John Schuster, but had no further issue;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) William David Charles Barham (b. 1958), born 30 March 1958; insurance broker and company director; married, February 1993, Zena (b. 1953), daughter of Cmdr. Peter Barton RN of Monks Eleigh (Suffk) and formerly wife of James T. Pearson, but had no issue;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Edward George Barham (b. 1962) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Robert Saxby Barham (b. 1965), born 22 February 1965; solicitor (admitted 1990), in practice in London; married, October 1993, Louise M., daughter of George Carter of the Old Rectory, Elmley Lovett (Worcs), and had issue three daughters.</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He inherited Snape House and Hole Park from his grandfather in 1952. He sold Snape House in 1955 and invested the proceeds in remodelling Hole Park in 1959. He handed on Hole Park to his second son in 2003.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Now living. His wife's date of death is unknown.&nbsp;</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barham, Edward George (b. 1962). </b>Second son of David George Wilfrid Barham (b. 1926) and his wife Margaret, daughter of Lt-Col. Rixon Bucknall MBE of Mayfield (Sussex), born 27 November 1962. Farmer and forester. An officer in the Territorial Army (2nd Lt., 1986). Director of Hole Park Developments Ltd. since 2006. Chairman of the Historic Houses Association (SE Region). He married, 27 October 1990 at Bowness-on-Windermere (Westmld), Clare Catherine (b. 1966), daughter of Oliver Turnbull of Cleabarrow, Windermere, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Emily Catherine Barham (b. 1993), born 3 March 1993; married, 23 March 2019 at Rolvenden, Max James Hilton Bigley, son of Robert Hilton Bigley of Whixley (Yorks NR);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) George Wilfrid Barham (b. 1994), born December 1994; educated at Stowe School and Exeter University (BSc 2017);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Helena Jane Barham (b. 1997), born 31 May 1997.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He took over the management of the Hole Park estate from his father in 2003.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Now living.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sources</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Burke's Landed Gentry</i>, 1972, pp. 42-43; ; <a href="http://www.wadhursthistorysociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/whs2.pdf"><i>Wadhurst History Society newsletter</i>, no. 2, March 2004</a>; J. Newman, <i>The buildings of England: Kent - West and the Weald</i>, 3rd edn., 2012, p. 508; N. Antram &amp; Sir N. Pevsner, <i>The buildings of England: Sussex - East, with Brighton &amp; Hove</i>, 2013, p. 650;</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Location of archives</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Barham family of Snape House and Hole Park: </i>no significant archive is known, but it is likely that papers remain with the family at Hole Park.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Express Dairy Ltd: </i>minutes and papers relating to the early history of the company, 1880-1953 [Museum of English Rural Life, Reading University: TR EXP 5]</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Coat of arms</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Argent, on a fesse gules between three bears passant sable, muzzled gules, a fleur-de-lys between two martlets, all gules.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can you help?</span></b></h4><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I should be most grateful if anyone can provide photographs or portraits of people whose names appear in bold above, and who are not already illustrated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Revision and acknowledgements</span></b></h4><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This post was first published 26 April 2019 and updated 27 April 2019.</span><br /><br /></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-78998715432693176462019-04-22T17:30:00.001+01:002019-04-22T17:31:34.319+01:00(372) Bargrave of Bifrons Place and Eastry Court<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jGtp1sUP5xo/XL2ULs4kFdI/AAAAAAAAMPg/0RAPd2UcOfwWAnOnZnZTwudql3cB_pKXQCLcBGAs/s1600/Bargrave%2Bof%2BBifrons%2Band%2BEastry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="545" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jGtp1sUP5xo/XL2ULs4kFdI/AAAAAAAAMPg/0RAPd2UcOfwWAnOnZnZTwudql3cB_pKXQCLcBGAs/s200/Bargrave%2Bof%2BBifrons%2Band%2BEastry.jpg" width="169" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bargrave of Bifrons and Eastry</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The family of Bargrave (or Bargar as it often appears in the earlier records) were yeomen at various places in east Kent in the 16th century. One of them, Robert Bargar (d. 1600) of Bridge, was also a tanner, and became sufficiently prosperous to send several of his sons to university or the inns of court, thus beginning their transition to gentry status. His eldest son, John Bargrave (1571-1624), entered the army in the service of the Earl of Essex, and is said to have taken part in his campaigns against the Spanish, perhaps including the capture of Cadiz in 1596. Soon afterwards, he seems to have abandoned the military life, perhaps as a result of his marriage early in 1597 to the daughter and co-heiress of a wealthy London haberdasher. She brought him a large dowry, which he invested in expanding the estate at Bridge and Patrixbourne that he inherited from his father in 1600, and in building a new mansion there, which he called Bifrons Place (and which must be distinguished from Bifrons at Barking (Essex)). The unusual name of the house evidently reflected the fact that the two facades of the house were of very different character, although only the appearance of the garden side of the house seems to be recorded. When the Virginia Company was founded in 1606, John Bargrave seems to have borrowed money to buy a stake in the colony, and in 1618 he established a settlement on his lands there. His brothers George Bargrave (c.1578-c.1630) and Rev. Thomas Bargrave (1581-1621) also emigrated to Virginia. John soon became embroiled in a dispute with his neighbour on the James River, John Martin, over the ownership of cattle, and this escalated into a row about the governance of the colony. He found he needed to be in Virginia to manage his lands and develop them into a successful enterprise, and to be in England to carry on his legal battle with the Virginia Company; but he could not be in two places at once and in the end both his legal affairs and his settlement failed. Bifrons seems to have been shut up or let, and by the time of his death he was acutely short of money and forced to sell his American interests; his two brothers both died in Virginia.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the next generation, John's two surviving sons, Robert Bargrave (1600-58) and the Rev. John Bargrave (1610-80), were prominent supporters of the Royalist cause. Robert, who was a naval officer in the 1620s and 1630s, took an active part in the Royalist Kentish rebellion of 1648, and went to Holland to recruit mercenaries for the cause. When the rebellion was crushed, he had to flee to the continent and his estate was sequestrated, although he was allowed to return after the execution of King Charles I in 1649. In 1651 he eventually negotiated the return of his estate in return for a fine of £350,&nbsp; but on top of the debts he had inherited from his father or incurred elsewhere, this was more than the estate could sustain, and after his death, his son, John Bargrave (1637-68) was obliged to sell Bifrons to Sir Arthur Slingsby in 1661 or 1662. He seems to have then gone abroad, or (according to one account) to Colchester in Essex. His brother, John Bargrave (1610-80) became a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1637, but was deprived of his fellowship in 1644 because of his Royalist views. Soon afterwards he went abroad, and between 1645 and 1660 he travelled in France, Italy, Germany and the Low Countries, eeking out a living by acting as bear-leader to young men sent abroad to acquire some knowledge of the world and more polished manners on what would come to be known as the Grand Tour. During his travels he kept a diary, part of which survives, and formed a collection of prints and antiquities, and he is believed to have been the chief author of one of the first guides for tourists, published in 1648 under the name of his nephew, John Raymond, who had been one of his charges the previous year. When news of the Restoration of the Monarchy reached him in 1660 he raced home and recovered his Fellowship, and shortly afterwards he was ordained. In 1662 he successfully petitioned Charles II for appointment to a canonry at Canterbury Cathedral, pointing out the extent of the hardships he and his family had endured for their support of the Royalist cause, and in 1665 he married a rich widow, so that he ended his days in some comfort, living in one of the canonry houses at Canterbury. His last, most dangerous and most romantic assignment for his monarch came in 1662-63, when he was appointed to take £10,000 raised by public subscription to Algiers and to negotiate the ransom from slavery of British subjects captured by Barbary pirates, a mission which he successfully accomplished. It was clearly his proudest achievement: when he died, the shackle of one of the prisoners he had freed was hung above his tomb in Canterbury Cathedral.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The youngest son of Robert Bargrave (d. 1600), yeoman and tanner of Bridge, was Isaac Bargrave (1587-1643), who was sent to Cambridge in about 1603 and pursued the conventional academic path to a clerical career; he was ordained in 1611. However there are indications that he was an able man with wider interests. In particular, in 1615 he was one of the performers who put on George Ruggle's Latin comedy, <i>Ignoramus</i>, in Cambridge before King James I, and soon afterwards he became chaplain to Sir Henry Wotton while the latter was Ambassador in Venice. Wotton, who was a seasoned traveller and diplomat and is said to have coined the <i>double entendre </i>that&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country", sent him home in 1618 with a recommendation to King James I. Clearly identified as a 'rising star', in 1618 he married into the Dering family, who were among the leading Kentish gentry, and bought a lease of a Canterbury Cathedral estate at Eastry Court (Kent). In 1622 King James appointed him as vicar of St Margaret, Westminster, chaplain to Charles, Prince of Wales (later King Charles I), and to a canonry in Canterbury Cathedral. And when Dean John Boys (who was his brother-in-law) died in 1625, he succeeded him as Dean of Canterbury. The years 1622-25 marked the apogee of his career, when it said that he had the ear of both the king and parliament, but after he left Westminster and moved to Canterbury his influence waned. In 1627 he preached a sermon strongly in support of Charles I's right to raise taxes without parliamentary approval, which annoyed the parliamentarian party, and he became embroiled in petty squabbles with the Archbishop of Canterbury, his fellow canons, and the diocesan registrar at Canterbury. He remained a firm, vocal supporter of the king, and was the target of attacks in Parliament from the late 1630s. When the King raised his standard at the start of the Civil War and sent out a Commission of Array for the raising of armed forces in each county it was Bargrave who hosted a meeting of the Kentish justices to decide how to proceed. Just a few weeks later, however, his house in Canterbury was seized by a parliamentarian commander, and he himself was arrested and thrown into the Fleet prison. Although he was released without charge three weeks' later, his health was broken, and he died in January 1643.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dean Bargrave's widow lived on until 1667, and probably remained the chatelaine of Eastry Court until her death. By then, the lease was in the hands of her grandson, Charles Bargrave (1651-1713), who pulled down part of the house in 1675 and added a new wing. Through his marriage in 1676, he acquired a manor at Charing (Kent), but Eastry seems to have remained his main home. At his death Eastry passed to his son, Isaac Bargrave (1680-1727), who pulled down more of the house and built a regular new front which survives today. His only son, Isaac Bargrave (1721-1800), was a bachelor, who having no family left the estate to his niece, Christian (1751-1806), and her husband Robert Tournay (c.1757-1825), who took the name Tournay-Bargrave. They also had no sons, and Eastry Court passed to their elder daughter, Christian (1782-1858) and her husband William Bridger (d. 1855). They left four daughters as co-heirs, and after Christian's death the lease was sold away from the family.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The story of one more member of the family must be explored further. This was the Dean's younger son, Robert Bargrave (1628-61), who seems to have inherited both his father's interest in the theatre and his cousin John's love of travel. He went very early to Grays Inn and Cambridge, but after the outbreak of the Civil War was moved to Oxford, which was a more comfortable berth for those of a Royalist persuasion. In 1647 he left England, perhaps largely for political reasons, and accompanied Sir Thomas Bendish to Constantinople, where Bendish had been appointed ambassador to the Porte. He then became established in business as a merchant, trading with the Levant and around the Mediterranean. Like his cousin John (with whom he spent several weeks in Italy in 1647), he kept a diary of his travels which conveys the flavour of the life of an Englishman abroad at this time. It also reveals his continuing interest in drama, for it contains the text, musical setting and dance notation for a masque of his devising, as well as a good deal of poetry. In 1656, Robert returned to England and became secretary to Lord Winchilsea, and when the Earl was appointed ambassador to Constantinople he accompanied him on his journey in order to take up the post of Secretary of the Levant Company in Constantinople. However, he died of a fever at Smyrna (now Izmir) early in 1661, and was thus deprived of the possibility of the sort of comfortable old age his older cousin John enjoyed.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">Bifrons Place, Patrixbourne, Kent</span></b></span></h3><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Bifrons Place at Patrixbourne in Kent was not, in origin, the seat of one of the manors of Patrixbourne, but was built in 1607-11 for John Bargrave, the majority of whose lands lay in the neighbouring parish of Bridge. We would probably know rather little about the house he built were it not for the happy survival of a birds-eye view of the estate painted in about 1700, perhaps by Jan van der Vaardt (1647-1721) (but previously attributed to Jan Wyck, John Wootton and Jan Siberechts), which is now in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-69sJY_yyUak/XLXtrRZPqkI/AAAAAAAAMOk/MuOM343Mjyo-X1MzYvFtFSScK8-pJE9owCLcBGAs/s1600/Bifrons%2BPatrixbourne%2B4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1600" height="434" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-69sJY_yyUak/XLXtrRZPqkI/AAAAAAAAMOk/MuOM343Mjyo-X1MzYvFtFSScK8-pJE9owCLcBGAs/s640/Bifrons%2BPatrixbourne%2B4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bifrons, Patrixbourne: the red brick house built for John Bargrave in 1607-11. Image: Yale Centre for British Art.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The unusual name of the house is said to mean 'two fronts', and although it could be argued that most country houses have at least two fronts, here it was perhaps coined because the two fronts were so different (there was another house in Essex with the same name). The painting shows the garden side of the red brick house, but it gives some hints about the entrance side. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M7onRkgiXBY/XLXuD9c-PrI/AAAAAAAAMOs/9JUO5Rp9Hf0HnlnBCYxPb88GoDAOpBQwwCLcBGAs/s1600/Bifrons%2BPatrixbourne%2B6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="700" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M7onRkgiXBY/XLXuD9c-PrI/AAAAAAAAMOs/9JUO5Rp9Hf0HnlnBCYxPb88GoDAOpBQwwCLcBGAs/s400/Bifrons%2BPatrixbourne%2B6.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Bifrons, Patrixbourne: detail of the birds-eye view above.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>A close-up allows one to see the tops of three formal gables peeking over the roof, so the entrance side was probably flatter and more formal. On the garden side the main block was of three storeys, with the middle level being apparently a lower mezzanine of a rather curious kind. From this projected a central porch and two long wings composed of an open arcade on the ground floor with enclosed roofs above. The view also shows the side elevation of the building, where oriel windows on the first floor hint at richly decorated chambers within. It is clear that even if Bifrons was smaller than the great contemporary courtyard prodigy houses like Audley End, it was generously conceived and expensively finished. It was also complemented by a formal compartmented garden with statuary and a gazebo.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">John Bargrave's grandson sold the house in 1662 and it changed hands several times before being bought in 1694 by John Taylor (d. 1729), the son of a successful barrister who descended from a gentry family in Shropshire. It was very probably Taylor who commissioned the bird's eye view painting of the house. His grandson, the Rev. Edward Taylor (d. 1798), who inherited in 1770, rebuilt the Jacobean house, nearly on the same site, as a rather plain neo-classical two storey block of nine bays by three. The entrance front had a three bay pediment, and rusticated quoins defining the centre and angles. On the garden side, the two storeys were treated as a piano nobile and an attic; there was no stressed centre or pediment, but all the windows had architraves and those on the ground floor had pediments as well.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;"><br /></span> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YecsS_P-Nlg/XLXzhdP4VPI/AAAAAAAAMO8/kATzWlvMZRsj0-IAfJUZVjsoxeVLKC6SgCLcBGAs/s1600/Bifrons%2BPatrixbourne%2B8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="755" height="396" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YecsS_P-Nlg/XLXzhdP4VPI/AAAAAAAAMO8/kATzWlvMZRsj0-IAfJUZVjsoxeVLKC6SgCLcBGAs/s640/Bifrons%2BPatrixbourne%2B8.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bifrons, Patrixbourne: entrance front in the early 20th century.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MWlARJ6tr6w/XLXy3AfqkQI/AAAAAAAAMO0/IlHnFxa9ixwTMbEQ0dUSopWujMVF7ddmQCLcBGAs/s1600/Bifrons%2BPatrixbourne%2B9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1058" height="380" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MWlARJ6tr6w/XLXy3AfqkQI/AAAAAAAAMO0/IlHnFxa9ixwTMbEQ0dUSopWujMVF7ddmQCLcBGAs/s640/Bifrons%2BPatrixbourne%2B9.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bifrons, Patrixbourne: the garden front as remodelled for the 2nd Marquess Conyngham. Image: Historic England.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Taylor was succeeded by his son, Edward Taylor (1774-1843), who was at one time the object of Jane Austen's affections, but in 1802 he married Louisa Beckenham, whose father was owner of the neighbouring estate of Bourne Park. For reasons which are unclear, they were perpetually short of money (having 12 children probably didn't help) and were forced to give Bifrons up from time to time and live more cheaply elsewhere, including stints on the continent and in a smaller house at Long Ditton in Surrey. Their tenants included (in 1828), Lady Byron and her daughter, the mathematician Ada Lovelace. In 1830 the Taylors sold Bifrons outright to Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham (1766-1832), reputedly for £100,000. The 2nd Marquess (1797-1876) made Bifrons his main English seat, and in the 1860s he undertook a remodelling, which added a new porch, the rather extraordinary miniature conservatory in the centre of the garden front, and possibly some other decorative details like the balustraded parapet, although this could have been part of the original design. The interiors were apparently more extensively altered, but I have not managed to find any internal photographs.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Fn5FE6F4kKk/XLX1RRjCBgI/AAAAAAAAMPE/yD5wpD7POUk3vFkDFwBjYPu89R7uWgfCACLcBGAs/s1600/Bifrons%2BPatrixbourne%2B13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="641" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Fn5FE6F4kKk/XLX1RRjCBgI/AAAAAAAAMPE/yD5wpD7POUk3vFkDFwBjYPu89R7uWgfCACLcBGAs/s400/Bifrons%2BPatrixbourne%2B13.jpg" width="346" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bifrons, Patrixbourne: cottage ornee lodge. Image: Historic England</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">From 1882 onwards the house was let, with tenants including the cricketer Frank Penn (1851-1916), and at the outbreak of the Second World War it was taken over for military purposes. The mangled remains that were handed back to the family in 1945 were demolished soon afterwards, and nothing remains on the site today except for one rather charming cottage ornée lodge, probably built by Edward and Louisa Taylor in the first years of their marriage, soon after 1800, and some of the planting in the grounds.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>D</i></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">escent: built 1607-11 for John Bargrave (1571-1624); to son, Robert Bargrave (1600-58); to son, John Bargrave (1637-68), who sold 1661/2 to Sir Arthur Slingsby (1623-66), 1st bt.; to son, Sir Charles Slingsby (d. after 1677), 2nd bt.; sold 1677 to Thomas Baker of London; to William Whotton of London, who sold 1680 to Thomas Adrian; sold 1694 to John Taylor (d. 1729); to son, Dr. Brook Taylor (d. 1731); to brother, Rev. Herbert Taylor (d. 1763); to son, Herbert Taylor (d. 1770); to brother, Rev. Edward Taylor (d. 1798), who rebuilt the house; to son, Edward Taylor (1774-1843); sold 1830 to Henry Conyngham (1766-1832), 1st Marquess Conyngham; to on, Francis Nathaniel Conyngham (1797-1876), 2nd Marquess Conyngham; to son, George Henry Conyngham (1825-82), 3rd Marquess Conyngham; to son, Henry Francis Conyngham (1857-97), 4th Marquess Conyngham; to son, Victor George Henry Francis Conyngham (1883-1918), 5th Marquess Conyngham; to brother, Frederick William Burton Conyngham (1890-1974), 6th Marquess Conyngham, who demolished it in 1948. The house was let after 1882 and occupied by the military, 1939-45.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Eastry Court, Kent</span></b></span></h3></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Tydb6lu9DxQ/XLXr8YSVbpI/AAAAAAAAMOc/rTf5u_Z1PMsQ9sUG9nxkjdkKj3sHNEpVACLcBGAs/s1600/Eastry%2BCourt%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="810" height="424" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Tydb6lu9DxQ/XLXr8YSVbpI/AAAAAAAAMOc/rTf5u_Z1PMsQ9sUG9nxkjdkKj3sHNEpVACLcBGAs/s640/Eastry%2BCourt%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Eastry Court: the early 18th century entrance front hides a much earlier building behind.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><br />The house now has the appearance of a long low ten-bay two-storey brick house with a hipped roof, but this masks an extremely complex story that is not fully understood. The manor belonged in Saxon times to the kings of Kent, who gave it to the monastery of Christ Church, Canterbury. The cellars below the house contain some coursed rubble walls once thought to be a survival from a Saxon royal palace, and although this is no longer accepted, the house may well stand on the palace site. A thatched hall house existed here in 1294-95 and was then pulled down and replaced by a timber-framed aisled hall with a tiled roof and a chamber at one end. A new kitchen was built in 1314-15, the upper end of the hall was reinforced in 1318-19, and more radical repairs were carried out in 1330-31, when stone walls were added. Parts of this walling may remain at the rear, where there are flint walls. <br /><br />At some point, probably in the 14th century, a timber-framed cross wing was added at the lower (north) end of the hall. If, as seems likely, the chamber that formed part of the original building phase lay at the upper (south) end of the hall, the addition of a wing at the north end would have made this quite a substantial house. An 18th century engraving of unknown date shows a brick range with a steeply-pitched roof south of the present house, which could be the former upper-end wing, but this was demolished before the age of photography. In the early 16th century a further small extension was made at the east end of the low-end wing, the purpose of which is unknown, although it had a crown post roof, suggesting fairly high status. It is possible that this was the chapel, recorded as being on the east side of the house, and to have been made into a kitchen after the original kitchen was demolished in 1675; in 1800 the east window, though blocked, was still visible but it has gone since, and this range now shows evidence of truncation. Later in the 16th century, the hall range was updated: a chimney was built within it, a screen was erected to divide the hall from the entrance passage, and a floor was inserted in the hall to provide an upper chamber. In the early 19th century the initials T A N (for Thomas and Anne Nevinson, tenants at the end of the 16th century) could be seen picked out in the brickwork of the house, but these had disappeared by 1870.</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sl6t0iN28p4/XLX2CLVNmcI/AAAAAAAAMPM/Zv07bWQLP8EW2AhvuLoNDks0JBH5-BARgCLcBGAs/s1600/Eastry%2BCourt%2B6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="1554" height="412" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sl6t0iN28p4/XLX2CLVNmcI/AAAAAAAAMPM/Zv07bWQLP8EW2AhvuLoNDks0JBH5-BARgCLcBGAs/s640/Eastry%2BCourt%2B6.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Eastry Court: showing the house in relation to the parish church and village pond.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From the early 17th century, the house and its demesne lands were leased by Canterbury Cathedral to the Bargrave family, who extended the lower-end wing to the north by a three-storey block, and later infilled the space between this and the early 16th century addition. Despite all these changes, it is thought that the medieval origin of the house as an aisled hall would still have been quite apparent until, in the early 18th century, most of the hall was demolished for Isaac Bargrave (d. 1727) and a new brick structure was erected on its footprint, reputedly in 1723. At the same time, the top storey of the 17th century block was removed, and the house was given a new brick facade with sash windows and a low-pitched roof. A pine panelled room with raised and fielded panelling, dado rails and a moulded cornice is presumably of the same date. In the mid 18th century, the house is recorded to have been divided into two tenements, 'each with its own hall', but this arrangement came to an end in 1782, and in 1786 Isaac Bargrave (d. 1800) "pulled down a considerable part of the antient building, consisting of stone walls of great strength and thickness, bringing to view some gothic arched door ways of stone, which proved the house to have been of such construction formerly, and to have been a very antient building". It seems likely that this demolition involved the removal of the upper-end wing of the house which is shown in an 18th century engraving.<br /><br /><i>Descent: Canterbury Cathedral leased to Thomas and Anne Nevinson (d. 1594) and later to Very Rev. Isaac Bargrave (1587-1643); to son, Thomas Bargrave (1620-54); to son, Charles Bargrave (1651-1713); to son, Isaac Bargrave (1680-1727); to son, Isaac Bargrave (1721-1800); to niece, Christian Clare (1751-1806), wife of Robert Tourney (later Tourney-Bargrave) (d. 1825); to daughter, Christian (1782-1858), wife of William Bridger (c.1774-1855); sold c.1859 to George Gardener (d. 1900); sold to George Gunson; sold 1925 to Capt. Tordiffe... the Ecclesiastical Commissioners gained possession c.1940 and sold the house in 1946 to F.H. Shoobridge, who divided it into five flats...it was later reconverted into a single residence... sold 1981 to Marion Gear (fl. 1996)..sold before 2006 to David Anthony Freud (b. 1950), Baron Freud.</i><br /><br /></span><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Bargrave family of Bifrons</b></span></h3><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><b>Bargrave, Robert (d. 1600).</b> Son of John Bargrave of Bridge (Kent) and his wife Alice Kennard, who was later the wife of John Lukyn of Fordwich. Yeoman and tanner. He married, 1568, Joanna (d. 1598), daughter of John Gilbert of Sandwich, and had issue:<br />(1) John Bargrave (1571-1624) (<i>q.v.</i>);<br />(2) Anne Bargrave (c.1573-1615), born about 1573; married, 2 November 1592 at Patrixbourne, Robert Naylor (d. 1618), but may have had no issue; buried at Patrixbourne, 25 April 1615;<br />(3) Alice Bargrave (c.1575-1640), born about 1575; married, 11 January 1596/7 at Nonington (Kent), Robert Turnlie alias Tourner; buried at Speldhurst (Kent), 1 November 1640;<br />(4) Angela Bargrave (c.1577-1645), born about 1577; married, 4 October 1604 at Patrixbourne, Very Rev. John Boys (1571-1625), rector of Betteshanger (Kent) and Dean of Canterbury, son of Thomas Boys of Eythorne and Barston (Kent), but had no issue; buried in Canterbury Cathedral, 13 November 1645;<br />(5) George Bargrave (c.1578-c.1630), born before 1579; a sea captain employed in the trade between England, Bermuda and Virginia, who reputedly brought the first slaves to Bermuda from Africa to dive for pearls, although when this venture failed they were put to work planting and harvesting the first large crops of tobacco and sugar cane; in 1619 he settled land on the lower James River; married, 20 July 1615 at St Gregory by St Paul, London, Dorcas (who m2, Robert Adney of Hawkinge), daughter of Capt. John Martin, one of the earliest settlers on the James River, and had issue one daughter; he probably died in Virginia sometime after 1625;<br />(6) Isaac Bargrave (b. &amp; d. 1580), baptised at Bridge, 12 June 1580; died in infancy and was buried at Bridge, 2 December 1580;<br />(7) Rev. Thomas Bargrave (1581-1621), baptised at Bridge, 2 January 1581/2; educated at Clare College, Cambridge (matriculated c.1596; BA 1599/1600; MA 1603; BD 1610; DD 1621); rector of Sevington (Kent), 1615-21, but went to Virginia in 1619 and settled as a minister at Henrico; died at Henrico, Virginia, 1621, and bequeathed his library to the newly-established college at Henrico (which closed in 1624);<br />(8) Richard Bargrave (b. 1583), baptised at Bridge, 21 December 1583; married, 15 September 1608 at Westbere (Kent), Alice Tournay, and had issue two daughters;<br />(9) Robert Bargrave (1585-1650), baptised at Bridge, 8 February 1584/5; married, 13 February 1614 at Hollingbourne (Kent), Frances (d. 1635??), daughter of [forename unknown] Ballard of Brenchley (Kent) and widow of Richard Wood of Hollingbourne; buried 24 January 1649/50 at Bridge, where he is commemorated by a portrait in the chancel;<br />(10) Very Rev. Isaac Bargrave (1587-1643) [for whom see below, Bargrave family of Eastry Court].<br /><i>He inherited a freehold farm at Bridge (Kent) from his father.</i><br />He was buried at Patrixbourne, 14 January 1599/1600. His wife died in 1598.<br /><br /><b>Bargrave, John (1571-1624).</b> Eldest son of Robert Bargrave (d. 1600) of Bridge (Kent) and his wife Joanna, daughter of John Gilbert of Sandwich, born at Bridge, 13 September 1571. Admitted to Lincoln's Inn (special admission), 7 November 1590. He was an officer in the Earl of Essex's regiment in wars against Spain during the 1590s, and in the 1610s became an investor in the Virginia Company (founded in 1606); he later claimed to be 'the first person who established a private plantation in Virginia' in about 1618, and to have a patent of free trade from the company; a claim which led to a lengthy and acrimonious dispute with Sir Thomas Smythe about the government of Virginia; in the end he lost heavily on his adventures in the colony and was obliged to sell his property there. In 1611 he obtained a grant of arms from William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms. He married, 13 February 1597 at St Mary Woolchurch, London, a wealthy heiress, Jane (1574-1638), daughter and co-heir of Giles Crouch, citizen and haberdasher of London, and had issue:<br />(1) Giles Bargrave (b. &amp; d. 1598), baptised at Patrixbourne, 3 November 1598 but died in infancy and was buried there 8 November 1598;<br />(2) Robert Bargrave (1600-58) (<i>q.v.</i>);<br />(3) Joan Bargrave (b. 1603), baptised at Patrixbourne, 3 May 1603; married 1st, 20 January 1627/8, Ven. Thomas Rayment alias Raymond (d. 1631), archdeacon of St. Albans, and had issue two sons; married 2nd, Mr. Hussey;<br />(4) Jane Bargrave (b. 1605), baptised at Patrixbourne, 7 April 1605; married, 1626, Rev. Lewis (or Ludovic) Wemyss (1608-59), sometime vicar of Gedney (Lincs) and rector of Finmere (Oxon) and prebendary of Westminster, probably fifth son of Sir James Wemyss of Bogie, and had issue;<br />(5) Rev. John Bargrave (1610-80), baptised at Nonington, 18 November 1610; educated at King's School, Canterbury and Peterhouse, Cambridge (matriculated 1629; BA 1633; MA 1636; DD 1660); Fellow of Peterhouse 1637-44 (ejected for his Royalist sympathies) and 1660-63 ; travelled in France, Italy, Germany and the Low Counties, 1645-60, sometimes acting as tutor to young gentlemen from Kent, and collecting small antiquities and momentoes of his travels; his diary and part of his collection are preserved at Canterbury Cathedral; he also played a major (and perhaps predominant) role in the compilation of the most famous English guidebook to Italy of the Civil War period, <i>An Itinerary Contayning a Voyage Made Through Italy, in the Yeare 1646, and 1647</i>, published under the name of his nephew, John Raymond in 1648; ordained, 1660; rector of Harbledown (Kent), 1661-70 and Pluckley (Kent), 1662-76; prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral, 1662-80; in 1662-63 he made his last journey abroad, at the request of King Charles II, taking £10,000 raised by public subscription, to ransom British subjects captured by Barbary pirates and held as slaves at Algiers; he married, 26 March 1665, a rich widow, Frances (1617-86), daughter of Sir John Wild and widow of Thomas Osborne of Nackington, and had issue one son; died 11 May 1680 and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral;<br />(6) Sarah Bargrave (b. c.1613), born about 1613; married, 1635 (licence 10 June), Partridge Rigdon of Gedney (Lincs);<br />(7) Anne Bargrave (b. 1614), baptised at Patrixbourne, 1 November 1614; died in infancy;<br />(8) Hester Bargrave (b. 1617), baptised at Patrixbourne, 20 July 1617.<br /><i>He inherited an estate at Bridge and Patrixbourne from his father. He enlarged the estate and built Bifrons Place in 1607-11, developments which were made possible by his wife's large dowry.</i><br />He was buried at Patrixbourne, 24 October 1624, where he is commemorated by a monument erected by his grandson in 1663. His widow was buried at Patrixbourne, 18 December 1638.<br /><br /><b>Bargrave, Robert (1600-58). </b>Eldest surviving son of John Bargrave (1571-1624) and his wife Jane, daughter and co-heir of Giles Crouche of London, baptised at Patrixbourne, 23 November 1600. Educated at Grays Inn (admitted 1618). In the 1620s and 1630s he was an officer in the Royal Navy and involved in ferrying troops to France for the disastrous Ile de Ré expedition. JP for Kent by 1641. He was an active supporter of the Kentish Rebellion of 1648, and travelled to Holland with Sir Henry Palmer to secure Dutch support, returning with 1500 soldiers; after the collapse of the insurrection he fled abroad and had to seek the permission of Parliament to return in 1649; his estates were sequestered and in 1651 he paid a fine of £350 to recover them. He married, 13 April 1635 at Canterbury Cathedral, Elizabeth (1617-72), daughter of Sir Samuel Peyton, 1st bt., and had issue:<br />(1) John Bargrave (1637-68) (<i>q.v.</i>);<br />(2) Robert Bargrave (1638-69), baptised at Patrixbourne, 14 September 1638; a proctor in Doctor's Commons; died in 1668 or 1669;<br />(3) Thomas Bargrave (1639-41); baptised at Patrixbourne, 3 September 1639; died in infancy and was buried at Patrixbourne, 28 May 1641;<br />(4) James Bargrave (1640-62), baptised at Patrixbourne, 15 December 1640; died unmarried; will proved 6 August 1662;<br />(5) Elizabeth Bargrave (1642-1703), baptised at Patrixbourne, 4 July 1642; married, 22 May 1684 at Otterden (Kent), John Fullager (d. 1715?) of Langley, but had no issue; buried at Patrixbourne, 6 January 1703;<br />(6) Thomas Bargrave (b. 1643), baptised at Patrixbourne, 20 October 1643; probably died young;<br />(7) Samuel Bargrave (b. 1646), baptised at Patrixbourne, 31 March 1646; probably died young;<br />(8) Isaac Bargrave (1648-79?), baptised at Patrixbourne, 30 April 1648; living in 1669; possibly the man of this name buried at Guildford (Surrey), 24 December 1679;<br />(9) Mary Bargrave (1650-53), baptised at Patrixbourne, 5 May 1650; died young and was buried at Patrixbourne, 28 December 1653;<br />(10) Jane Bargrave (1651-68), baptised at Patrixbourne, 17 June 1651; died unmarried and without issue and was buried at Patrixbourne, 20 November 1668.<br /><i>He inherited the Bifrons estate from his father in 1624.</i><br />He was buried at Patrixbourne, 13 October 1658. His wife died in 1672.<br /><br /><b>Bargrave, John (1637-68). </b>Elder son of Robert Bargrave (1600-58) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Samuel Peyton, bt., baptised at Patrixbourne, 11 July 1637. Educated at Grays Inn (admitted 1654). He was unmarried, and was without issue.<br /><i>He inherited the Bifrons estate from his father in 1658, but sold it to Sir Arthur Slingsby in 1662. He may have subsequently lived abroad or at Colchester (Essex).</i><br />His date of death is unknown, but administration of his goods was granted to his brother Robert, 23 July 1668, and after the latter's death to his brother Isaac, 5 August 1669.</span><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"><span style="color: red;">Bargrave family of Eastry Court</span></b></h3><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kTh8lUrg8DA/XLnElf9LsyI/AAAAAAAAMPY/nV2vH9sUNcEg9xQDXHQnApcXruEtNkUEgCLcBGAs/s1600/Bargrave%252C%2BVery%2BRev%2BIsaac.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kTh8lUrg8DA/XLnElf9LsyI/AAAAAAAAMPY/nV2vH9sUNcEg9xQDXHQnApcXruEtNkUEgCLcBGAs/s200/Bargrave%252C%2BVery%2BRev%2BIsaac.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Very Rev. Isaac Bargrave&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Bargrave, Very Rev. Isaac (1587-1643).</b> Sixth son of Robert Bargrave (d. 1600) of Bridge [for whom see above], and his wife Joanna, daughter of John Gilbert of Sandwich (Kent), baptised at Patrixbourne, 20 December 1587. Educated at Pembroke College (BA 1607), Clare College, Cambridge (MA 1610; DD 1622) and Lincoln's Inn (admitted 1622). In 1612 he filled the office of junior taxor in Cambridge (a University post charged with supervising matters relating to trade in the town of Cambridge). Ordained deacon and priest, 1611; rector of Eythorne (Kent), 1612-43 and Chartham (Kent), 1628-43, but retained his Cambridge connections and performed at the university in George Ruggle's Latin comedy, <i>Ignoramus</i>, before James I on 8 March 1615; chaplain to Sir Henry Wotton while the latter was ambassador to Venice, 1616-18; he returned to England with Wotton's recommendation to the King, and was appointed rector of St Margaret, Westminster and prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral, 1622-25 and chaplain to Charles, Prince of Wales (later Charles I). In 1625, he succeeded his brother-in-law, John Boys, as Dean of Canterbury, a post he held until his death. In his sermons at Westminster, Bargrave struck a robustly independent line, seeking to position the Church of England as a middle way between extremes, which succeeded in satisfying neither the Puritans on the one hand nor his Archbishop, William Laud, on the other. Within the cathedral close, Bargrave engaged in disputes with both Laud and the cathedral clergy and diocesan registrar, and he stirred up further trouble by claiming precedence over the deans of London and Westminster. His unpopularity extended to Parliament, where he was attacked verbally and he was one of the targets of a 1641 bill to abolish deans and chapters, which he exerted himself to oppose successfully. On the outbreak of the Civil War, Bargrave hosted a meeting of gentry to put into effect Charles I's Commission of Array, but within a few weeks his deanery had been occupied by Parliamentarian forces commanded by Col. Edwin Sandys, and his wife and children were roughly treated; he himself was absent but he was arrested at Gravesend and imprisoned in the Fleet prison for three weeks. After being released without charge, he returned to Canterbury, but his health had been broken, and he died soon afterwards. He married, 1 October 1618 at Boughton Malherbe (Kent), Elizabeth (1593-1667), daughter of Sir John Dering, kt., of Pluckley (Kent), and had issue:<br />(1) Thomas Bargrave (1620-54) (<i>q.v.</i>);<br />(2) Anne Bargrave (1621-1701), baptised at Eythorne, 12 April 1621; married 1st, 27 December 1636 at Canterbury Cathedral, Rev. Thomas Coppin (d. 1639); married 2nd, 22 October 1640 at Eythorne, Sir Henry Palmer (d. 1659) of Howletts, Bekesbourne and later of Covent Garden, Westminster (Middx), an active supporter of the Kentish Rebellion of 1648, and had issue three daughters; married 3rd, 1669 (licence 15 November) in the chapel of Grays Inn, as his second wife, Sir Philip Palmer (1615-83), kt. of Dorney Court (Bucks), cupbearer to King Charles II; buried at Wingham (Kent), 29 July 1701;<br />(3) Edward Bargrave (c.1622-24), baptised at St Margaret, Westminster, 16 January 1622/3; died in infancy and was buried at St Margaret, Westminster, 8 April 1624;<br />(4) John Bargrave (1624-25), baptised at St Margaret, Westminster, 8 February 1623/4; died in infancy and was buried at Canterbury Cathedral, 25 July 1625;<br />(5) Isaac Bargrave (b. &amp; d. 1626), baptised at Canterbury Cathedral, 17 November 1626, but died and was buried there the following day;<br />(6) Robert Bargrave (1628-61), born 25 March and baptised at Canterbury Cathedral, 30 March 1628; educated at Grays Inn (admitted 1640 at an unusually early age, perhaps so that he could witness the dramatic entertainments there), Clare College, Cambridge (admitted 1642) and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (matriculated 1643); in 1647 he left England (perhaps primarily for political reasons) with the embassy to Turkey of Sir Thomas Bendish, and established himself as a merchant trading with the Levant and Mediterranean ports, 1647-56; he kept a diary (now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford) of his travels by sea and over land, interspersed with his own poetry and the text of a masque complete with a musical setting and dance steps; personal secretary to Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea, 1656-60, and on the Earl being appointed ambassador to Constantinople, he was appointed as Secretary to the Levant Company in Constantinople, 1660-61, but died en route to his posting; married, c.1653, Elizabeth (1632-1703), daughter and heiress of Robert Turner of Canterbury (Kent) and had issue two sons (who died young) and two daughters; died and was buried at Smyrna, between 7 January and 9 February 1661;<br />(7) Mary Bargrave (1629-86), baptised at Canterbury Cathedral, 31 May 1629; married, 5 March 1651, John Smythe (1615-93) of Lested Lodge, Chart Sutton (Kent), and had issue four sons and seven daughters (many of whom died young); buried at Chart Sutton, 3 February 1685/6;<br />(8) Jane Bargrave (b. &amp; d. 1630), baptised at Eythorne, 4 June 1630; died in infancy and was buried at Canterbury Cathedral, 23 July 1630;<br />(9) Hester Bargrave (b. 1632), baptised at Canterbury Cathedral, 23 December 1632; married 1st, 7 May 1662 at St Bartholomew-the-Less, London, Francis Nowers (1631-70), herald painter, who died in a fire at his house in London, and had issue one son and three daughters (two of the children also died in the fire); married 2nd, 5 February 1680/1 at Canterbury Cathedral, Francis Turner of London; date of death not found;<br />(10) Elizabeth Bargrave (b. 1635), baptised at Canterbury Cathedral, 11 March 1634/5; married Edward Wilsford (perhaps the man of this name who was vicar of Lydd); <br />(11) Henry Bargrave (1636-37), baptised at home, 28 December 1636; died in infancy and was buried at Canterbury Cathedral, 8 January 1636/7.<br /><i>He lived at Eythorne (Kent) until he purchased a lease of Eastry Court from the Dean &amp; Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral in c.1618.</i><br />He was buried in the Dean's Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral, 25 January 1642/3, where a monument was erected by his nephew in 1679. His widow was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, 29 June 1667.</span></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Bargrave, Thomas (1620-54).</b><span style="font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> Eldest son of Very Rev. Isaac Bargrave (1587-1643) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Dering, baptised at Patrixbourne, 7 May 1620. Educated at Grays Inn (admitted 1638). He married, 5 August 1647 at St Bartholomew-the-Less, London, Honora Estcott (c.1626-82), and had issue:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(1) Charles Bargrave (1651-1713) (<i>q.v.</i>);<br />(2) Thomas Bargrave (b. 1654), baptised at Eastry, 24 March 1653/4.<br /><i>He inherited Eastry Court from his father in 1642.</i><br />He died in 1654; his will was proved 4 September 1654. His widow married 2nd, 20 January 1660 at St Mary Bredin, Canterbury, Joseph Roberts of Canterbury, and was buried at Eastry, 31 March 1682.<br /><br /><b>Bargrave, Charles (1651-1713).</b> Elder son of Thomas Bargrave (1620-54) and his wife Honora Estcott, baptised at Eastry, 13 May 1651. He married, 18 November 1676 at Merstham-le-Hatch (Kent), Elizabeth (d. 1732), daughter of Robert Withwick of Frittenden (Kent), and had issue:<br />(1) Elizabeth Bargrave (1678-1746), baptised at Tenterden (Kent), 12 May 1678; married, 1 October 1702 at Littlebourne (Kent), Edward St. Leger (d. 1729) of Deal (Kent), surgeon, and had issue one son and five daughters; buried at Gt. Mongeham (Kent), 28 October 1746;<br />(2) Isaac Bargrave (1680-1727) (<i>q.v.</i>);<br />(3) Honora Bargrave (1682-1776), baptised at Eastry, 29 March 1682; married*, 21 August 1709 at Eastry, Charles Knowler (1678-1750) of Canterbury, and had issue one son and two daughters; died 9 March and was buried at St Alfege, Canterbury (Kent), 16 March 1776; will proved 16 April 1776;<br />(4) Martha Bargrave (1684-1750), baptised at Eastry, 27 March 1684; married, 6 April 1714 at Swingfield (Kent), Zouch Pilcher (1686-1762) of Swingfield, and had issue two sons and one daughter; died 4 October and was buried at Swingfield, 11 October 1750;<br />(5) Capt. Charles Bargrave (1686-1755), baptised 6 March 1686; an officer in the Royal Navy, 1701-43 (Lt., 1707/8; Capt., 1741), 'a gallant and veteran commander' who was apparently dismissed from the service in obscure circumstances, 27 February 1742/3; lived at Shurland, Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey (Kent); married, 22 September 1719 at Lamb's Chapel, Monkwell St., London, Sarah Austen (d. 1772) of Eastchurch, and had issue two daughters; buried at Eastchurch, 4 August 1755; will proved 26 March 1765;<br />(6) Hester Bargrave (1692-1741), baptised 6 March 1691/2; married, 24 February 1717/8 at Swingfield, William Bridges (1687-1746) of Sandwich; buried at Eastry, 4 March 1741;<br />(7) Robert Bargrave (1695-1779), born 31 January 1695; married 1st, 10 May 1733 at St Margaret, Canterbury, Elizabeth (c.1705-37), daughter of Sir Francis Leigh of Hawley, and had issue one son; married 2nd, 30 June 1753, Elizabeth (d. by 1778), widow of Thomas Basset of London; died 17 December 1779; will proved 15 April 1780;<br />(8) Mary Bargrave (1697-1747), baptised 13 December 1697; married, 29 May 1718 at Knowlton (Kent), David Denn (d. 1774?) of Wingham (Kent), and had issue two sons; probably the Mary Denne buried at Eastry, 29 December 1747.<br /><i>He inherited Eastry Court from his father in 1654. Through his marriage he also acquired the manor of Brockton in Charing (Kent).</i><br />He was buried, 7 November 1713 at Eastry, where he is commemorated by a monument. His widow was buried at Eastry, 26 December 1732.<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">* Some accounts show her as marrying 2nd, Joseph Roberts, but I have found no such marriage and she was buried as Honora Knowler.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Bargrave, Isaac (1680-1727).</b> Eldest son of Charles Bargrave (1651-1713) and his wife Elizabeth Withwick, baptised at Tenterden (Kent), 25 April 1680. He married, 12 September 1717 at St Paul's Cathedral, London, Christiana (1698-1772), daughter of Sir Francis Leigh of Hawley, and had issue:<br />(1) Christian Bargrave (1718-96) (<i>q.v.</i>);<br />(2) Frances Bargrave (1719-95), baptised at Eastry, 1 November 1719; noted for her sound understanding and retentive memory, and for her piety and Christian charity; married, 26 December 1758 at Hythe (Kent), John Broadley (c.1705-84) of Dover (Kent), surgeon, but died without issue and was buried at Eastry, 17 March 1795;<br />(3) Isaac Bargrave (1721-1800) (q.v.).<br /><i>He inherited Eastry Court and Brockton from his father in 1713, but sold Brockton to Humphrey Punder.</i><br />He died in March 1727 and was buried at Eastry. His widow was buried at Eastry, 14 October 1772.</span></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Bargrave, Isaac (1721-1800). </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Only son of Isaac Bargrave (1680-1727) and his wife Christian, daughter of Sir Francis Leigh of Hawley, baptised at Eastry, 10 September 1721. Educated at Middle Temple (admitted 1737). Articled to Joseph Ashton, solicitor, 1738, and practised as an attorney in Cook's Court, Carey St., London for some years. JP for Kent. He married, 23 March 1750 at Canterbury Cathedral, Sarah (1723-87), daughter of George Lynch MD of Ripple (Kent), but had no issue.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>He inherited Eastry Court from his father in 1727, and came of age in about 1744. At his death he bequeathed his leasehold at Eastry Court and his freehold property at Eastry, Worth, Joychurch, Newington (nr. Chatham) and Canterbury in Kent to Robert Tournay, the husband of his niece Christian.</i><br />He died 24 May 1800 and was buried at Eastry; his will was proved 12 June 1800. His wife died 16 April and was buried at Eastry, 24 April 1787.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Bargrave, Christian (1718-96). </b>Elder daughter of Isaac Bargrave (d. 1727) and his wife Christian, daughter of Sir Francis Leigh of Hawley, baptised at Eastry, July 1718. She married 1st, Rev. Claudius Clare (1717-64) of Hythe (Kent), vicar of Lympne, 1748-64 and rector of Dymchurch 1752-64, and 2nd, 28 October 1785, Capt. Robert Kirk RN (c.1732-1802), and had issue:<br />(1.1) Christian Clare (1751-1806) (q.v.);<br />(1.2) Claudius Clare (b. &amp; d. 1756), baptised at Hythe, 21 September 1756; died in infancy and was buried at Hythe, 24 October 1756;<br />(1.3) Frances Clare (b. &amp; d. 1758), baptised at Hythe, 24 January 1758; died in infancy and was buried at Hythe, 21 June 1758.<br /><i>She lived at Hythe (Kent).</i><br />She died after a long illness, 28 February, and was buried at Eastry, 12 March 1796. Her first husband was buried at Hythe, 24 December 1764. Her second husband was buried at Eastry, 26 May 1802.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Clare, Christian (1751-1806). </b>Only surviving child of Rev. Claudius Clare of Hythe (Kent) and his wife Christian, elder daughter of Isaac Bargrave of Eastry Court, baptised at Hythe, 23 June 1751. She married, 10 January 1782 at Hythe, Robert Tournay (later Tournay-Bargrave) (c.1757-1825), attorney-at-law, son of Robert Tournay, and had issue:<br />(1) Christian Tournay-Bargrave (1782-1858) (q.v.);<br />(2) Sarah Tournay-Bargrave (1784-1832), baptised at Saltwood, 4 April 1784; married 1st, 20 May 1805 (div. 1817), Richard Halford of Canterbury, banker with Baker &amp; Co., and had issue one son (who died young); married 2nd, 24 May 1819 at Eastry, Capt. Sir Thomas Staines RN* (1776-1830) of Dent-de-Lion, Garlinge (Kent), and had issue two daughters; married 3rd, 24 November 1831 at Margate, George Gunning (1783-1849) of Frindsbury (Kent), but continued to be known as Lady Staines; died 25 January 1832 and was buried at St John the Baptist, Margate (Kent); she is commemorated by monuments at both Margate and Frindsbury.<br /><i>Her husband inherited Eastry Court and other estates in Kent from her uncle in 1800.</i><br />She died 23 September 1806 and was buried at Eastry. Her husband died 19 May and was buried at Eastry, 27 May 1825; his will was proved 16 November 1825.<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">* Sir Thomas Staines was the first cousin and former close friend of her first husband but was convicted of 'criminal conversation' with Sarah in 1817 and fined £1,000.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><b>Tournay-Bargrave, Christian (1782-1858). </b>Elder daughter of Robert Tournay (later Tournay-Bargrave) and his wife Christian, daughter of Rev. Claudius Clare of Hythe (Kent), baptised at Saltwood (Kent), 19 December 1782. She married, 30 September 1805 at Eastry, as his second wife, William Bridger (c.1774-1855) of Lympne (Kent), and had issue:<br />(1) Christina Bargrave Bridger (b. &amp; d. 1808), baptised at Eastry, 28 June 1808; died in infancy and was buried at Eastry, 6 July 1808;<br />(2) Christian Bargrave Bridger (1809-90), baptised at Eastry, 25 July 1809; married 9 April 1844 at Eastry, Capt. Thomas Harvey RN of The Lodge, Upper Deal (Kent), but had no issue; died 2 August 1890; will proved 25 August 1890 (estate £11,592);<br />(3) Sarah Bargrave Bridger (1811-86), baptised at Eastry, 30 April 1811; married 1st, 25 October 1854 at Eastry, Capt. Augustus Charles May RN (1811-63), son of John May, solicitor; married 2nd, 7 August 1866 at St Luke, Lower Norwood (Surrey), as his second wife, Rev. George Rainier (c.1813-72), vicar of Ninfield (Sussex), but had no issue; died at Anerley (Surrey), 29 November 1886 and was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery (Middx); will proved 4 January 1887 (estate £8,035);<br />(4) Bargrave Bridger (1813-22), baptised at Eastry, 16 June 1813; died young, 13 August 1822 and was buried at Eastry, 21 August 1822;<br />(5) Mary Bargrave Bridger (1815-83), baptised at Eastry, 14 May 1815; married, 3 April 1856 at Eastry, as his second wife, Cmdr. Edward Bunbury Nott RN of Beach House, Deal, son of Rev. Edward Nott, but had no issue; died at Anerley (Surrey), 10 November 1878; will proved 29 November 1878 (effects under £5,000);<br />(6) Charlotte Frances Bargrave Bridger (1817-66), baptised at Eastry, 21 August 1817; married 1st, 17 July 1850 at Eastry, Capt. John Allen William Wade (1812-51), an officer in the Royal Marines, son of Col. Hamlet Nicholas Wade; married 2nd, 7 December 1854 at Eastry, as his second wife, Rev. Thomas Watkins (1805-75), rector of Llansantffraed (Brecons.), son of Thomas Watkins esq., and had issue one son; died 21 May and was buried at Llansantffraed, 25 May 1866.<br /><i>She and her husband inherited Eastry Court from her father in 1825. After her death the lease was sold to George Gardener.</i><br />She died 9 September 1858; her will was proved 21 September 1858 (effects under £4,000). Her husband died 19 January 1855; his will was proved 21 February 1855.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Sources</b></span></h4><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">W. Bristow, <i>The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent</i>, vol. 10, 1800, pp. 98-121; J. Phillimore, <i>Reports of cases argued and determined in the ecclesiastical courts at Doctor's Commons, 1809-12</i>, vol. 1, pp. 316-33; W. Berry, <i>Pedigrees of the families in the county of Kent</i>, 1830, pp. 106-07; W.F. Shaw, <i>Liber Estriae</i>, 1870, especially pp. 54-55; Anon., 'Captain John Bargrave's charges against the former Government of Virginia, 1622', <i>The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography</i>, Jan. 1899, vol 6, no. 3, pp. 225-28; S. Pearson, P.S. Barnwell &amp; A.T. Adams, <i>A gazetteer of medieval houses in Kent</i>, 1994, pp. 51-53; P.S. Barnwell &amp; A.T. Adams, <i>The house within: interpreting medieval houses in Kent</i>, 1994, pp. 140-41; S. Bann, <i>Under the Sign: John Bargrave as collector, traveler and witness</i>, 1994; M.G. Brennan, 'The exile of two Kentish Royalists during the English Civil War, <i>Archaelogia Cantiana</i>, vol. 120, 2000, pp. 77-105; J. Newman, <i>The buildings of England: Kent - North-East and East</i>, 3rd edn., 2013, pp. 338, 483; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5_ok5aYo2U">Channel 4, Time Team, series 13, episode 6</a>; <a href="https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/bb4ae/bargrave1.php">https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/bb4ae/bargrave1.php</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Location of archives</b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>No significant accumulation is known to survive. The diary and collection of John Bargrave is at Canterbury Cathedral (<a href="https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/bargrave/index.html">https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/bargrave/index.html</a>); the diary of his cousin Robert in the Bodleian Library.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Coat of arms</b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or, on a pale gules a sword erect argent, hilted and pomelled gold, on a chief azure three bezants.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Can you help?</b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Can anyone provide a view of the entrance front of the Jacobean Bifrons Place, or any internal photographs of the Georgian and Victorian house there?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I refer above to an 18th century engraving of Eastry Court which I have not, in fact, been able to find. Can anyone supply me with an image of this view?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I should be most grateful if anyone can provide photographs or portraits of people whose names appear in bold above, and who are not already illustrated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Revision and acknowledgements</b></span></h4><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This post was first published 22 April 2019.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-88626237605335979092019-04-14T18:20:00.006+01:002019-04-14T18:21:35.829+01:00(371) Bardwell of Bolton Hall<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The early history of this family is unusually obscure, partly because they seem to have supplied misleading information to the editors of <i>Burke's Landed Gentry</i>. According to the descent given there, John Bardwell (1743-1826), with whom the genealogy below begins, was himself of West Harling Hall (Norfolk) and succeeded his father, another John, who was also seated there. This seems to be a complete fiction. Although an estate at West Harling had belonged to the Bardwell or Berdewell family in the medieval period, the family had long since ceased to hold any property there before the 18th century, and West Harling Hall - which was rebuilt after 1725 - was in other hands. John Bardwell seems, in fact, to have lived in London and to have started his career as a dealer in china, who also acted as a common carrier specialising in the transport of delicate goods. By 1785 he had moved to Sheffield, where he set up as an auctioneer. He was succeeded in this business by his son, Thomas Newman Bardwell (c.1787-1862), who in due course was joined in partnership by his sons, Thomas Newman Bardwell (1815-60) and Frederick Bardwell (1818/9-90). The business was evidently successful, and in 1845 the elder Thomas retired from the concern. At the end of his life, in 1858, he bought Bolton Hall near Fangfoss (Yorks ER). His intention may have been to hand this on to his elder son, but Thomas junior died in 1860. Frederick Bardwell, whose interests had become focused more on the cutlery trade, then had to take up the reins of the auctioneering business too, and when he inherited Bolton Hall in 1862 he let it out, perhaps because he felt the need to live nearer to Sheffield. His only son, Thomas Newman Frederick Bardwell (1850-1931) was however educated as a gentleman, and although he retained his father's interests in the cutlery trade, he lived a gentry lifestyle at Bolton. Most of the land was sold after the First World War, but the house was retained until his death, after which his son, Maj. Thomas Garnett Newman Bardwell (1883-1957) quickly sold it, perhaps to make financial provision for his younger siblings. Major Bardwell, who was a career soldier and racehorse owner, never married and lived subsequently in a villa at Royston (Herts), which he named 'The Boltons', presumably in reference to the name of his father's house rather than the exclusive residential district of London of that name.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i><br /></i></span><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Bolton Hall, Fangfoss, Yorkshire (ER)</span></b></h3><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Sod6cyTzUI/XKoj7RLCrfI/AAAAAAAAMNI/z-hWA23cZIkwzPBYkdqx9BNO_1YptsezACLcBGAs/s1600/Bolton%2BHall%252C%2BFangfoss%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="954" height="408" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Sod6cyTzUI/XKoj7RLCrfI/AAAAAAAAMNI/z-hWA23cZIkwzPBYkdqx9BNO_1YptsezACLcBGAs/s640/Bolton%2BHall%252C%2BFangfoss%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bolton Hall, near Fangfoss: the house after rambling additions of c.1882. Image: Historic England.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">A well-proportioned two-storey five bay hipped-roofed house of rendered brick, built c.1760 for John Nicoll. The central three bays are stepped slightly forward under a three-bay pediment containing an oculus. When it was offered for sale in 1802 the house was said to consist of 'a Drawing Room and a Dining Room, each about 24 feet by 18, and proportionably high, two small rooms, a large Kitchen, back kitchen, pantry etc.' on the ground floor and 'seven bedrooms with closets etc.' on the upper floor, while a leasing advertisement of 1828 noted that it had recently undergone a thorough repair.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The house had apparently already have been enlarged by 1836 when an advertisement referred to an entrance hall and library as well as a drawing room 33 feet by 21 and a dining room 30 feet by 21, and it was further enlarged and altered by T.N.F. Bardwell in about 1882. However, most of the 19th century additions were removed in 1969-73 when the house was restored by Ferrey &amp; Mennim for Col. Worsley.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wMlG2B3QNYM/XKoj7XtCYMI/AAAAAAAAMNM/TA8vQ3ZFIDch2_vuTPKE85_trFV9oGoBQCLcBGAs/s1600/Bolton%2BHall%2BYorks%2B1%2B2008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="271" height="274" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wMlG2B3QNYM/XKoj7XtCYMI/AAAAAAAAMNM/TA8vQ3ZFIDch2_vuTPKE85_trFV9oGoBQCLcBGAs/s400/Bolton%2BHall%2BYorks%2B1%2B2008.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bolton Hall: the house after reduction by Ferrey &amp; Mennim in 1969-73.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: John Nicoll... sold 1802...John Preston (fl. 1814-28)... Cook Cooper Taylor (d. 1835); to son, Isaac Taylor; sold 1858? to Thomas Newman Bardwell (c.1790-1862); to son, Frederick Bardwell (1818-90), who gave it to his son, Thomas Newman Frederick Bardwell (1850-1931); to son, Thomas Garnett Newman Bardwell (1883-1957), who sold c.1931?... Col. George Oliver Worsley (1927-2010); sold c.1987... Julian Richer (b. 1959).</i></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Bardwell family of Bolton Hall</span></b></h3><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bardwell, John (d. 1826). </b>Parentage unknown. He may possibly be identifiable with the John Bardwell, 'dealer in china' who also acted as a carrier of other delicate goods between London and Norwich, and who invited custom in the press in 1780. By 1785 he was an auctioneer in Sheffield. He married Honor Newman and had issue including:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) John Bardwell (b. 1776), baptised at St Mary, Whitechapel (Middx), 28 August 1776;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Hannah Bardwell (b. 1780), baptised at St Mary, Whitechapel (Middx), 28 May 1780;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Elizabeth Bardwell (b. 1783), baptised at Christ Church, Spitalfields (Middx), 20 July 1783;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Thomas Newman Bardwell (c.1787-1862) (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died in Sheffield, 21 August 1826. His wife's date of death is unknown.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bardwell, Thomas Newman (c.1787-1862). </b>Eldest son of John Bardwell (d. 1826) and his wife Honor Newman, baptised at Sheffield, 13 January 1788. JP for Yorkshire. Auctioneer in Sheffield (retired 1845). Trustee of the Rotherham &amp; Four Lane Ends Turnpike Trust. He married, 29 June 1814 at Sheffield (Yorks), Martha Eadon (d. 1865) and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Thomas Newman Bardwell (1815-60), born 2 June and baptised at Sheffield, 29 June 1815; auctioneer in Sheffield in partnership with his father and brother until 1845; also stockbroker, in partnership with his brother and John Fawcett until 1845; died without issue, at Scarborough (Yorks), 1 May 1860; administration of his goods granted to his father, 13 August 1860 (effects under £100)</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Frederick Bardwell (1818/9-90) (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He bought Bolton Hall near Fangfoss (Yorks) in 1858.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 18 June, and was buried at Ecclesall (Yorks WR), 23 June 1862; his will was proved 9 July 1862 (effects under £4,000). His widow died in Scarborough, 2 September 1865; administration of her goods was granted 25 October 1879 (effects under £50).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bardwell, Frederick (1818/9-90). </b>Only surviving son of Thomas Newman Bardwell (c.1787-1862) and his wife Martha Eadon, born 15 July 1818/9* and baptised at Sheffield, 6 December 1826. He began as an a</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">uctioneer in Sheffield, in partnership with his father and brother, and was also a</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;s</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">tockbroker, in partnership with his brother and John Fawcett, until 1845. He seems then to have broadened his interests, becoming an original promoter of Joseph Rodgers &amp; Son Ltd., the cutlery manufacturers and one of the managing directors of that firm until shortly before his death; he was also a director of Samuel Fox &amp; Co. Ltd. He played little part in public affairs apart from being a JP for the West Riding of Yorkshire and serving as a member of Sheffield Town Council, 1870-71, a position from which he resigned after finding the work uncongenial. He was a director of the Sheffield Water Co., 1874-76 and 1881-90. He paid for the building of St. Thomas, Wincobank, Sheffield, and the associated rectory and schools, 1876, in memory of his parents and brother. He married 1st, 27 March 1850 at Sheffield (Yorks), Anne (1820-50), daughter of Maurice Rodgers and 2nd, 7 November 1860 at St Martin, York, her sister Elizabeth Rodgers (1818-93), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Thomas Newman Frederick Bardwell (1850-1931) (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Lynton (Devon) and Scarborough (Yorks) in the 1850s; he inherited Bolton Hall from his father in 1862 but let it from 1864 and lived at Woodleigh (Notts) and latterly at Park Villa, Worksop (Notts). He owned an estate at Wincobank, Sheffield, which he seems to have developed for housing.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 3 May 1890; his will was proved 4 June 1890 (estate £48,709). His first wife died in 1850. His widow was buried at Ecclesall (Yorks WR), 5 June 1893.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">*The entry for his baptism in the parish register gives the date as 1818; the plate on his coffin said 1819 (as reported in the local press).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bardwell, Thomas Newman Frederick (1850-1931). </b>Only son of Frederick Bardwell (1818/9-90) and his wife Anne, daughter of Maurice Rodgers, born 3 July 1850. Educated at Malvern College, Pembroke College, Oxford (matriculated 1869; SCL and BA 1873; MA 1876) and the Inner Temple (admitted 1873; called 1877). Chairman of Joseph Rogers &amp; Sons, cutlery manufacturers, of Sheffield, 1918; Barrister-at-law; JP and DL for East Riding of Yorkshire; County Councillor and Commissioner of Taxes for East Riding. He married, 29 April 1880 at Shifnal (Shrops.), Lucy Sophia (c.1854-99), eldest daughter of Rev. William Bishton Garnett-Botfield of Decker Hill and Bishop's Castle (Shrops.), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Grace Frederica Bardwell (1882-1960), born 30 June 1882; married, 4 January 1905, Percy Ayscough Willis (1882-1946), youngest son of Gen. Sir George Harry Smith Willis GCB and had issue two sons and two daughters; died 13 March 1960; will proved 9 May 1960 (estate £2,754);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Thomas Garnett Newman Bardwell (1883-1957) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Sybil Augusta Bardwell (1885-1954), born 2 February 1885; served with ARP in Second World War; married, 2 January 1908, Sir Geoffrey Arnold Ripley (1883-1954), 3rd bt., but had no issue; died 11 August 1954;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Margery Sophia Bardwell (1886-1968), born 6 May 1886; married, 20 February 1906, Maj. William John Corbett-Winder (1875-1950) of Vaynor Park (Montgomerys.) and had issue one son and two daughters; died 20 December 1968; will proved 4 March 1969 (estate £805);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Capt. Tatton Botfield Bardwell (1888-1928), born 18 August 1888; educated at Eton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; an officer in Montgomeryshire Regt. (Capt.); married, 25 June 1914 at Holy Trinity, Chelsea (Middx), Mary Margaret (d. 1946), younger daughter of Alexander James Henry Campbell of Dunstaffnage, and had issue two sons and one daughter; died 14 March 1928;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Mary Myrtle Bardwell (1891-1974), born 7 April and baptised at Full Sutton (Yorks), 10 May 1891; married, 11 February 1915 at St Saviour, Walton St., Chelsea (Middx), Rev. Edmund Henry Corbett-Winder (1882-1960), rector of West Stafford (Dorset), and had issue two sons and one daughter; died 28 January 1974; will proved 1 August 1974 (estate £5,853);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) Capt. William Scott Bardwell (1892-1968), born 18 April 1892; educated at Cheam School, Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; an officer in the Royal Navy, 1909-46 (2nd Lt., 1912; Lt., 1913; Cmdr., 1924; Capt., 1940); served in Second World War; awarded DSO and bar, 1942, 1944; appointed MVO, 1929; married, 18 October 1921, Ellen Louise, daughter of Dr. C. Manville Pratt of Towanda, Pennsylvania (USA) and had issue one son and one daughter; died 24 October 1968.</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He inherited Bolton Hall from his father in 1890.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died at Folkestone (Kent), 28 March 1931, and was buried at Bishop Wilton (Yorks ER), 31 March 1931; his will was proved June 1931 (estate £56,626). His wife died 20 November 1899.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TRzpxvveE0k/XKoWmO1pblI/AAAAAAAAMNA/a14zLNQQsSka9kpSwElPObZ9MZ4OgGBhACLcBGAs/s1600/Bardwell%252C%2BThomas%2BG.N..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="606" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TRzpxvveE0k/XKoWmO1pblI/AAAAAAAAMNA/a14zLNQQsSka9kpSwElPObZ9MZ4OgGBhACLcBGAs/s200/Bardwell%252C%2BThomas%2BG.N..jpg" width="170" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Capt T.G.N. Bardwell (1883-1957).<br /><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">Some rights reserved</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bardwell, Maj. Thomas Garnett Newman (1883-1957). </b>Eldest son of Thomas Newman Frederick Bardwell (1850-1931) and his wife Lucy Sophia, eldest daughter of Rev. William Bishton Garnett-Botfield of Decker Hill and Bishop's Castle, born 30 December 1883. Educated at Eton, Jesus College, Cambridge and the Inner Temple (admitted 1913). An officer in the East Yorkshire Yeomanry (2nd Lt., 1903; Lt., 1912; Capt., 1914; Maj.) and the Camel Corps; seconded to Egyptian Army and served in the Sudan as a district commissioner and DASC, Khartoum, 1920-21. Racehorse owner. He served in the Second World War with the War Office, 1939-41 and Intelligence Corps (Maj.), 1941-46. Appointed MBE, 1946. He was a keen cricketer and Master of Foxhounds. He was unmarried and had no issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Bolton Hall from his father in 1931 but sold it soon afterwards. He lived latterly at The Boltons, Royston (Herts).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 25 April 1957; his will was proved 3 June 1957 (estate £30,538).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sources</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Burke's Landed Gentry</i>, 1952, p. 109.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Location of archives</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">No significant accumulation is known to survive.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Coat of arms</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">None recorded</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can you help?</span></b></h4><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Can anyone supply more information about the ownership history of Bolton Hall after its sale by the Bardwells in 1931?</li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I should be most grateful if anyone can provide photographs or portraits of people whose names appear in bold above, and who are not already illustrated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Revision and acknowledgements</span></b></h4><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This post was first published 14 April 2019.</span><br /><br /></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-59362360086787083482019-04-06T17:08:00.001+01:002019-04-07T06:08:29.639+01:00(370) Barclay of Ury House<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G7MiwqUWbm0/XKDNZN1yH-I/AAAAAAAAMMg/GHNulwJ67PwK5ofyh0rp_Tf3pmPUQVvigCLcBGAs/s1600/Barclay%2Bof%2BBury%2BHill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G7MiwqUWbm0/XKDNZN1yH-I/AAAAAAAAMMg/GHNulwJ67PwK5ofyh0rp_Tf3pmPUQVvigCLcBGAs/s200/Barclay%2Bof%2BBury%2BHill.jpg" width="166" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barclay of Ury</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The Barclays have been established in Scotland from a very early date, though their origins are disputed: a summary of the conflicting views can be found on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Barclay">Wikipedia</a>. One Alexander de Berkeley was granted the estate of Mathers on the Kincardineshire coast&nbsp; in 1351, and his descendants continued to hold that estate down to the time of David Barclay (1580-1660), with whom the genealogy below begins. Having acted as surety for his father-in-law, David Barclay was plunged into debt and was obliged to sell more and more of his patrimony between 1611 and 1632. His third son, David Barclay (1610-86) became a soldier of fortune on the Continent, fighting for Protestant causes in the Swedish and later Prussian armies in the Thirty Years War. He seems to have demonstrated considerable military prowess and was well rewarded by his employers, so that when he was recalled by his family in 1638 because of the increasingly troubled situation in Scotland, he may have harboured the hope of recovering possession of Mathers. The property had, however, been much divided by his father's dispersal and subsequent re-sales, and the troubled years of the Civil War meant that he was occupied with military affairs at home. In 1647-48, however, he seized the opportunity to buy the Ury (or Urie) estate not far from his ancestral home, where the original fortified house had been burnt by Royalist troops in 1645. Here he was eventually successful in putting down new roots, building a new house in 1670 and apparently improving it a few years later.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In the 1660s, David Barclay and his son, Robert Barclay (1648-90) embraced Quaker beliefs, and Robert emerged in the 1670s as one of the leaders of the Society of Friends and one of its most active and effective literary advocates. Although both he and his father experienced periods of imprisonment for their faith, Robert managed to secure the effective intercession of a number of powerful people on their behalf. He seems to have had the knack of making friends even with those who did not share his religious views, and his unlikely friendship with James, Duke of York (later James II) no doubt helped to shape the Duke's views on religious toleration. </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Robert died aged just forty-two, and was succeded at Ury by his eldest son, Robert Barclay (1672-1747), while his second son, David Barclay (1682-1769) went to London to seek his fortune in about 1698, and founded the great banking and brewing families which I have written about in my previous posts. The Quaker faith was now an established part of the family's identity and both Robert and David adhered to it, without achieving the national profile and reputation of their father. It remained the faith of their descendants well into the 19th century and in some cases into the 20th century. In later life, Robert (1672-1747), who stayed in Scotland and lived quietly at Ury, became increasingly interested in the history of his own family, and wrote a book on the subject which was published in 1740. At his death he was succeeded by his eldest son, Robert Barclay (1699-1760), who was noted more for his size and physical strength than for anything else. Although he was brought up to assist in the management of the Ury estate, however, he was not much interested in agriculture, and his son, yet another Robert Barclay (1732-97) inherited a badly run-down property. Fortunately,&nbsp; this Robert, was an energetic and enlightened agricultural improver, and quickly turned the situation round. Through his second marriage in 1776 he acquired control (at least until they divorced in 1793) of his wife's family <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2013/12/92-allardice-later-barclay-allardice-of.html">Allardice Castle estate</a> and he added her surname to his in recognition of this. He was also able to contemplate additions to Ury House, although these were never carried out, perhaps because his marriage broke down. When he died in 1797 the estate passed to his son, Robert Barclay-Allardice (1779-1854), who preferred to live at a rented property in England, and Ury was sold after his death to Alexander Baird, who demolished the Barclays' house and built a new one.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Ury House, Kincardineshire</span></b></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This house was written up in 2018 in my post on the <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2018/04/328-baird-of-lochwood-house-cambusdoon.html">Baird family</a>, who purchased Ury from the Barclays after death of Capt. Robert Barclay-Allardice in 1854.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Barclay family of Ury (or Urie)</span></b></h3><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, David (1580-1660). </b>Son of Thomas Barclay and his wife Janet Straiton of Lauriston, and grandson of George Barclay (d. 1607) of Mathers, born 1580. According to his great-grandson, he was 'a very polite well-bred man, but by the easiness of his temper, and living much at Court, he brought himself into such difficulties as obliged him to sell his estates, first Mathers, after they had kept it near 300 years and then the old estate after they had kept upwards of 500 years'. In fact, his embarrassments, which were real enough, derived partly from acting as surety for his father-in-law, Sir John Livingstone. In 1617 he was accused of a violent assault on George Ogilvie and when he did not appear to defend himself was 'denounced as a rebel', but this seems to have been quickly reversed or forgotten because he had become a JP for Kincardineshire by 1623. In 1634 he was finally 'put to the horn' for debt (i.e. made bankrupt), but the debt was still owed in 1643 when he was briefly imprisoned. He was admitted as a burgess of Glasgow, 1651. He married 1st, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Livingstone of Dunipace, and 2nd, Margaret, daughter of John Keith, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) John Barclay (b. c.1607), born about 1607; he became embroiled in his father's financial woes and was himself proceeded against for debt in February 1643; he was probably unmarried and may have died soon after this as he does not appear in the records again;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Alexander Barclay (b. c.1608), born about 1608; married, before 1631, Anna, perhaps the daughter of Matthew Ross of Haining Ross, but died without issue before 1652;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.3) David Barclay (1610-86) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.4) Rev. Robert Barclay (1611/2-82); educated at Aberdeen University (MA 1633), the Scots College in Paris an</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">d&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white;">the College of St Nicolas du Chardonnet</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">; became a Roman Catholic priest in about 1640; rector of the Scots College in Paris, 1655-82, and rebuilt the college buildings; had the reputation of being rather difficult and quarrelsome; died 7 February 1682 and was buried at the Scots College, Paris;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1) Capt. James Barclay (d. 1645); an officer in his brother David's troop of horse (Capt.); died unmarried when he was killed at the Battle of Philliphaugh, 1645;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.2) Anne Barclay; married 1st, John Douglas of Tilliwhilly, and had issue one daughter; married 2nd, Robert Irvine of Drum; and married 3rd, 1649, Rev. David Strachan, afterwards Bishop of Brechin.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited the Mathers estate in Kincardineshire and his family's ancient lands in the Mearns from his grandfather in 1607 but sold it all between 1611 and 1632.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died in Edinburgh in 1660, and was buried in Canongate kirkyard, Edinburgh. His first wife's date of death is unknown. His second wife's date of death is unknown.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, David (1610-86). </b>Third son of David Barclay (1580-c.1660) and his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Livingstone of Dunipace, born at Kirktounhill on the estate of Mathers in 1610. Educated at King's College, Aberdeen (admitted 1628 but did not graduate) and then travelled abroad, visiting Germany. He then became a soldier of fortune and served in the army of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden (Captain, 1630) in fighting against Ferdinand of Styria during the Thirty Years War, and later in the Prussian army (Maj., 1632/3). In 1638 he was summoned home to Scotland but his arrival was delayed by his arrest off the coast of Yorkshire by a Royalist privateer in May 1639; he was apparently still in custody in October 1641. Soon afterwards, however, he gained his freedom and joined the moderate Presbyterian army in the three-way struggle of the Civil War in Scotland (Maj., c.1642; Lt-Col.; Col. by 1646). When the Scots again took up arms against the English parliament in 1648 he was made responsible for recruiting cavalry in Caithness, Sutherland and Ross-shire, and although he had not been actively engaged in the fighting he lost his position in the army when the Scots were defeated.&nbsp;He then retired to Gordonstoun. In 1651 he was deprived of his lands at Ury for his support of the Royalist cause in the second Civil War, but he recovered his property in 1654 after getting himself appointed as one of the Scottish MPs at Westminster (first for Sutherland and later for Kincardineshire and the Mearns) and as Commissioner for Forfeited Estates; in the latter capacity he succeeded in persuading the Government 'to restore all the Nobility and Gentrey to their fortunes, which made him so popular... that he had their publick thanks'. He seems to have withdrawn from public life in 1658 and lived quietly at Edinburgh or Gordonstoun until 1665, when he was arrested and imprisoned for acting as a commissioner under Cromwell. Although this was technically true, he might have expected that his use of the role to assist Royalists and his own sufferings under Cromwell might have protected him, and the real reasons for his arrest have never been satisfactorily explained. He was at first in Edinburgh Castle and was later under house arrest in Edinburgh, at Montrose and finally at Ury, but he was released only in 1670 after the intervention of the Earl of Middleton.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He joined the Society of Friends in 1666, and his refusal as a Quaker to swear a 'bond of peace' extended his imprisonment by at least three years.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;He then lived peacefully at Ury until in 1676 he and many others were arrested at the instigation of the provost and clerics of Aberdeen for holding conventicles at Ury, and he was held prisoner for a further year.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He married, 26 January 1648/9, Katherine (1620-63), daughter of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st bt., of Gordonstoun, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Robert Barclay (1648-90) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) John Barclay (1659-1731); emigrated in about 1684 to East New Jersey (USA), where he&nbsp; received from his elder brother the grant of an estate of 500 acres called Plainfields; married, c.1700&nbsp; in New Jersey, Catherine [surname unknown] (d. 1703) and had issue one son, from whom descended the Barclays of New York; died in April 1731;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) David Barclay (d. 1685); merchant;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">emigrated in 1685 to East New Jersey (USA) on board the 'America', but&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">died at sea during the voyage;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Lucy Barclay (d. 1686);&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">died unmarried, October 1686;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Jean Barclay; married, 1685, as his 3rd wife, Sir Ewan Cameron (c.1629-1719), kt., of Lochiel, and had issue</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He purchased the lands and barony of Ury (Kincardineshire) in 1647-48 (where the old tower had been burned by Royalist troops in 1645). Although the old castle may have been repaired in the 1650s sufficiently for him to occupy it, he did not build a new house until 1670. As soon as it was finished, he handed it over to his eldest son, although he seems to have lived there too, and in 1679 employed James Smith to 'cover with freestone the house of Urie'.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died on or about 10 October, and was buried in the Quaker burial ground he established at Ury, 12 October 1686. His wife died in March 1663.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Robert (1648-90). </b>Eldest son of David Barclay (1610-86) and his wife Katherine, daughter of Sir Robert Gordon, 1st bt., of Gordonstoun, born at Gordonstoun (Morays.), 23 December 1648. He was brought up at Gordonstoun by his grandparents on strict Presbyterian principles, but as he showed academic promise he was in 1659 sent to Paris to be educated by his uncle, the rector of the Scots College there; he was younger than the other pupils but studied alongside them, learning French and Latin, rhetoric and divinity, honing his debating skills, and acquiring fencing and other gentlemanly accomplishments. In 1663, reputedly at the request of his ailing mother, he was brought home by his father and returned to the household at Gordonstoun. When his father was imprisoned in 1665, he visited him at Edinburgh castle, and was exposed to the conversation and beliefs of the Quaker, John Swinton. Although his father is said not to have tried to influence him in his religious beliefs, believing this should be a matter of individual conscience, he followed his father into the Society of Friends in 1666. He soon began publishing pamphlets containing reasoned defences of the Quaker position, the earliest of which was <i>Truth Cleared of Calumnies</i>&nbsp;(1671), and these led him on to write what came to be regarded as the text-book of Quaker theology,&nbsp;<i>An apology for the true Christian divinity...preached by the people... called Quakers </i>(1676); a collected edition of his writings was published in 1692.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1672, he helped to found the Quaker meeting house in Aberdeen, and four years later&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">he went with George Fox, William Penn, George Keith and other Quaker leaders on a mission to organise Yearly Meetings of the Society of Friends in Holland and Germany; while there he met Princess Elizabeth, Princess Palatine of the Rhine, and they remained friends until she died in 1679. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1676-77, when his father and later Robert himself were imprisoned for 'holding conventicles' at Ury, she secured the help of Prince Rupert in persuading the King to order their release.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1677 he struck up a rather unexpected friendship with the Catholic Duke of York (later King James II), and he no doubt encouraged James' inclination to religious toleration; although he took no part in politics, he remained an informal counsellor to the king, and after the revolution of 1688 was a rather suspect figure to the new regime because of this friendship, and even had to defend himself from attacks that he was a closet Papist.&nbsp; In 1681, William Penn purchased East New Jersey in America and made Barclay one of the council of 24 proprietors of the scheme, settlement of the new lands beginning in 1682. Robert was appointed Governor of East Jersey in that year, but made it a condition that he should not be required to go to America himself, instead appointing one of the other proprietors as his deputy. Some of the land he was allotted he assigned to his two brothers, who went to America in 1684 and 1685. He married, February 1669, Christian (c.1651-1723), daughter of Gilbert Mollison of Aberdeen, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) David Barclay (1670-71), born 8 September 1670; died in infancy, 1671;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Robert Barclay (1672-1747) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Margaret Barclay (1673-85), born 4 October 1673; died young, 1685;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Patience Barclay (1676-1757), born 25 November 1675/6; married, 8 April 1707, Timothy Forbes (d. 1743),&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">son of Alexander Forbes of Aquorthes</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">; died 22 June 1757;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Katherine Barclay (1678-1758), born 26 June 1678; married, 17 June 1703, James Forbes (d. 1734), son of Alexander Forbes of Aquorthes; died 9 November 1758</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Christian Barclay (1680-1751), born 15 May 1680; married, 1700 (contract 10 April),&nbsp; Alexander Jaffray of Kingswells;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">died 1751;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) David Barclay (1682-1769) [for whom see my <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/03/369-barclay-of-youngsbury-knotts-green.html">previous post</a>]</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(8) Jean Barclay (b. 1683), born 27 December 1683; married, 12 April 1707, Alexander Forbes (d. 1740), son of John Forbes;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">living in 1740</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(9) John Barclay (1687-1751), born 20 October 1687; settled in Dublin; married 1st, 26 June 1709, Margaret Wilson and 2nd, 19 May 1713, Anne (1694-1771), daughter of Amos Strettell of Dublin, merchant, by who he had two sons and nine daughters; died in Dublin, 8 June and was buried at Corke St. burial ground, 11 June 1751;</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He was given the Ury House estate by his father in c.1672, and in 1679 King Charles II erected the lands of Ury into a free Barony.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died at Ury, 3 October, and was buried in the Quaker burial ground there, 6 October 1690. His widow died in March 1723.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Robert (1672-1747). </b>Eldest surviving son of Robert Barclay (1648-90) and his wife Christian, daughter of Gilbert Mollison, born 25 March 1672. Educated at Theobalds Palace, Cheshunt (Herts), 1683-88. Like his father and grandfather, he became a Quaker in religion.&nbsp; In 1698 he was briefly imprisoned after a friend sought to involve him in a Jacobite plot which was reported to the authorities, but he was soon released through the intervention of the Earl of Huntly with the king. In 1714 he became a burgess of Aberdeen. In his later years he became interested in the history and genealogy of his family, and published <i>A genealogical account of the Barclays of Urie </i>(1740; 2nd edn, 1812), which also contained a biographical sketch of his father and grandfather. He married, 1696 (contract 6 July), Elizabeth, daughter of John Brain, merchant of London, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Margaret (1697-1707), born 23 March 1697; died young, 13 May 1707;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Robert Barclay (1699-1760) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) John Barclay (1701-14), born 19 July 1701; died young, 16 July 1714;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Mollison Barclay (b. 1703), born 21 November 1703; married 1st, 1724, John Doubleday&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1695-1736)</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, son of John Doubleday of Alnwick Abbey (Northbld), and had issue one son and two daughters; married 2nd, 19 July 1739, Abel Strettell of Manchester; living in 1758;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Elizabeth Barclay (b. 1708), born 11 May 1708; married, by 1729, Sir William Ogilvie (d. 1791), 4th bt., of Barras, and had issue two sons and several daughters;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) David Barclay (1710-83), born 29 April 1710; apparently a merchant in London, he was obliged in 1761 to stop payment, but his debts were discharged by his creditors without being paid in full, after which, 'by unremitting attention to business, and the strictest economy, he acquired, late in life, a competency', the greatest part of which he bequeathed to his former creditors; he&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, 10 January 1737, Mary (1712-72), daughter of John Pardoe of Worcester, by whom he had issue one daughter; died 10 October 1783;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) Katharine Barclay (b. 1713), born 1 April 1713; died unmarried;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(8) Jean Barclay (1719-20), born 23 April 1719; died in infancy, 12 June 1720.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited the Ury estate from his father in 1690, and enlarged the property by repurchasing lands known as Finlayson and Redcloak which had formerly been part of the estate. He also laid out 'very fine gardens' around the house before 1722.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 27 March 1747. His wife's date of death is unknown.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Robert (1699-1760). </b>Eldest son of Robert Barclay (1672-1747) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Braine, merchant, of London, born 20 May 1699. He possessed a physical strength that led him to be known as "Robert the Strong", and which was demonstrated in a number of picaresque episodes recorded by the family historian. He was a Quaker in religion, and author of several religious tracts and essays. Although he assisted his father with the management of the Ury estate he was not much interested in agriculture, and the by the time of his death the estate was in poor condition. He married, 28 July 1725, his cousin, Une (1701-62), daughter of Sir Ewan Cameron of Lochiel, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Jean Barclay (1726-50), born 22 March 1726; died unmarried, July 1750.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Robert Barclay (1731-97) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) David Barclay (1737-62), born 24 September 1737; brought up as a Quaker but left the Society of Friends on joining the army as an officer in the 42nd Highlanders; died unmarried when he was killed at the taking of Martinique in 1762;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Ewan (aka Evan) Barclay (1738-1805), born 1 October 1738; lived in Marylebone (Middx); died unmarried, 23 August, and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 28 August 1805;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Alexander Barclay; probably died in infancy;</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He inherited the Ury estate from his father in 1747.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 10 October 1760 and was buried in the Quaker burial ground at Ury. His widow died in March 1762 and was also buried at Ury.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay (later Barclay-Allardice), Robert (1732-97). </b>Eldest son of Robert Barclay (1699-1760) and his wife Une, daughter of Sir Ewan Cameron of Lochiel, born 17 November 1732. Like his father he was over six feet tall and very strong, but unlike him he was&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">‘possessed of an enterprising spirit and extensive knowledge in agriculture, which he acquired by reading ... and by his own observations in the different tours which he made on foot in his younger years through Scotland and a great part of England’. He became&nbsp;a pioneer of the new farming methods in Scotland and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">'was the first man who ever sowed a turnip in a field or artificial grasses north of the Firth of Forth';&nbsp;he brought 2,000 acres into a high state of cultivation, reclaimed 800 acres from moor, and planted 1,200 acres with forest trees.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">A popular and philanthropic landlord, he laid out a new town at Stonehaven, and during the famine of 1783 organized ‘a benevolent society for purchasing meal and grain to be retailed at an underprice’. Despite being a Quaker, he became </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">MP for Kincardineshire, 1788-97, and must have had to bend his Quaker principles to take the parliamentary oath. He was a keen pedestrian, and is said to have walked from Ury to London (some 510 miles) to take his place in Parliament, on one occasion accomplishing this feat in ten days. In 1776, on his second marriage, he formally took his wife's surname in addition to his own, although he seldom seems to have used the double-barrelled form.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1785 his wife’s claim for recognition as heir of line to her ancestor the Earl of Airth and Menteith was successful and thereafter Barclay’s ‘great object’ was to secure the peerage for his family, although he never achieved this and he and his wife were divorced in 1793.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">His portrait was painted by Raeburn and perhaps also by Beechey. He married 1st, 3 June 1756 at Tottenham Monthly Meeting (Middx), Lucy (1737?-57), daughter of </span><a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/03/369-barclay-of-youngsbury-knotts-green.html" style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">David Barclay (1682-1769) of London</a><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, and 2nd, December 1776 (div. 1793), Sarah Anne (1757-1833), only daughter and heiress of James Allardice, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Lucy Barclay (1757-1817), born 22 March 1757; married, 7 October 1777 at Hertford, Samuel Galton FRS (1753-1832) of Duddeston House, Aston juxta Birmingham (Warks), banker, and had issue six sons and four daughters; died 16 November and was buried at Quaker burial ground, Birmingham, 21 November 1817;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(2.1) Anne Barclay-Allardice (1777-82), born 13 September and baptised 30 November 1777; died young, 29 October 1782;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(2.2) Une Cameron Barclay-Allardice (1778-1809), born 13 September and baptised 27 September 1778; married 25 July 1802, John Innes (1776-1832) of Cowie (Kincardines.) and had issue; died 26 September 1809;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(2.3) Capt. Robert Barclay-Allardice (1779-1854) [for whom see my post on the <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2013/12/92-allardice-later-barclay-allardice-of.html">Allardice family</a>];</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(2.4)&nbsp;<i>twin,&nbsp;</i>Margaret Barclay-Allardice (1780-1855), born 14 October and baptised 16 November 1780; married, 27 September 1809, Hudson Gurney (1775-1864) of Keswick Hall (Norfolk); died without issue, 16 December 1855;</span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.5)&nbsp;<i>twin,&nbsp;</i>Mary Barclay-Allardice (1780-99), born 14 October and baptised 16 November 1780; died unmarried, 28 June and was buried at the Quaker burial ground, Birmingham, 5 July 1799;</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(2.6) Rodney (f.) Barclay-Allardice (1782-1853), born 29 April and baptised 6 June 1782; died unmarried, 1853;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(2.7) James Barclay-Allardice (1784-1804), born 3 July 1784; collector of customs at Trincomalee (Ceylon); died at Madras, 3 March 1804;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">(2.8) Maj. David Stuart Barclay-Allardice (1787-1826), born 3 and baptised 29 March 1787; an officer in 42nd Highlanders and later the 28th Foot (Lt., 1811; Capt., 1813; Maj. 1822); died unmarried at Otranto (Italy), 1826</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited the Ury estate from his father in 1760. Soon afterwards, he bought the property of Arduthie and laid out the new town of Stonehaven on this estate. In 1789 he obtained plans from James Playfair for enlarging Ury House but nothing was done.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 8 April 1797. His first wife</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> died 23 March and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 29 March 1757</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. His second wife married 2nd, 1795, John Nudd (c.1764-1828), and was buried at Sprowston (Norfk), 12 July 1833.</span><br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sources</span></b></h4><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Burke's Landed Gentry - The Kingdom in Scotland</i>, 2001, pp. 55-59; H.F. Barclay, <i>A history of the Barclay family, vol. 3: the Barclays in Scotland and England from 1610-1933</i>, 1934; ODNB entry for Robert Barclay (1648-90).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Location of archives</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Barclay family of Ury and Allardice:&nbsp;</i>title deeds, estate papers, genealogical and misc family papers, 1201-20th cent. [National Records of Scotland, GD49];&nbsp;miscellaneous estate and family papers, 1724-1843 [Norfolk Record Office, RQG]</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Coat of arms</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Azure, a chevron ermine, in chief three crosses patée argent.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can you help?</span></b></h4><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><ul style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, &quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;, Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Is anyone able to provide fuller or more detailed genealogical information about David Barclay (1580-1660) and his children?</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">I should be most grateful if anyone can provide photographs or portraits of people whose names appear in bold above, and who are not already illustrated.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Revision and acknowledgements</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This post was first published 6 April 2019.</span><br /><br /></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-69534651954260244812019-03-30T17:47:00.001+00:002019-03-31T14:15:28.397+01:00(369) Barclay of Youngsbury, Knotts Green, Brent Pelham, High Leigh, Colney Hall, and Hanworth Hall<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-473LsKtoQMo/XJu1XW-eEdI/AAAAAAAAMMI/Yi99oi8Uk5cdIDt-5VDPihM4FVWunEKjgCLcBGAs/s1600/Barclay%2Bof%2BKnotts%2BGreen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="997" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-473LsKtoQMo/XJu1XW-eEdI/AAAAAAAAMMI/Yi99oi8Uk5cdIDt-5VDPihM4FVWunEKjgCLcBGAs/s200/Barclay%2Bof%2BKnotts%2BGreen.jpg" width="166" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barclay of Knotts Green and Higham</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">David Barclay (1682-1769), the second son of Robert Barclay (1648-90) of Urie House in Scotland, the Quaker apologist [for whom see my next post], moved to London at the age of sixteen and bound himself apprentice to James Taylor, a linen draper and member of the Grocers' company.&nbsp; In due course he married Taylor's daughter and established a successful business importing linen goods from Germany, Ireland and Scotland and re-exporting them to the American colonies. In 1723, after his first wife died, he married Priscilla, the daughter of John Freame (1665-1745), a Quaker London goldsmith and banker, and ten years later his eldest son, James Barclay (1708-66), married her younger sister, Sarah. As a result of this double alliance, James entered his father-in-law's banking business, and was the first to bring the name of Barclay into the banking world. David's second surviving son, Alexander Barclay (1711-71) entered his father's business and went to Philadelphia to manage the American end of the concern. The story of Alexander's descendants (the brewing Barclays) is told in my <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/03/368-barclay-of-bury-hill-and-eastwick.html">previous post</a>. This post concerns the other children of David Barclay and their descendants (the banking Barclays).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">David Barclay had seven children by his first marriage and ten by his second, and although all those who lived to maturity seem to have led interesting and successful lives, the most significant of them was probably the younger surviving son of his second marriage, David Barclay (1729-1809). He seems to have been associated with both his father's linen merchant house and with the Freame &amp; Barclay bank, but when he became concerned that Britain's worsening relationship with her American colonies would damage the linen business, he at first he attempted to mediate between Benjamin Franklin and the British government to find a compromise acceptable to both sides, and when this failed, managed the firm's gradual withdrawal from the export trade. The firm ceased trading altogether in 1783, but by then he had&nbsp;taken up a partnership with the bank. He inherited a plantation in Jamaica and its slave population, and in line with his Quaker principles he freed the slaves, paid for them to be taught a trade or handicraft skills, and resettled them on his property in Pennsylvania. He was also one of the close family members who put up the capital to enable his nephew Robert Barclay (1751-1830) to buy the Anchor brewery and establish his highly successful business there. In 1768 he became the first member of the family to own a country house (Youngsbury (Herts)), although it was just a small villa in an unfinished landscaped garden when he acquired it, and he enlarged it considerably and improved the setting. In 1793 he began to feel his age and sold it again, downsizing to live in villas at Edmonton (Middx) and Walthamstow (Essex).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">David Barclay (1729-1809) left a good deal of his property to his grandson, Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), whose paternal family were also Quakers with banking and brewing interests, and became closely interconnected with the Barclays over succeeding generations. He was succeeded as a partner in the family bank, however, by his nephew, Robert Barclay (1758-1816) - the son of his brother John (1728-87) - who was a leading figure in the Society of Friends. He lived in a substantial five-bay house at Clapham (Surrey) - now a hospice at 30 Clapham Common North Side - and was friendly with many of the leading figures in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Sect">Clapham Sect</a> whose reformist social and political views he generally shared, even if his religious views were different. He was also one of several members of the family to have had a keen interest in astronomy, and he had an observatory built within the grounds of his house at Clapham. He was succeeded at Clapham and also as senior partner in the bank by his eldest son, Robert Barclay (1787-1853), who in 1814 married Elizabeth Gurney. As part of their marriage settlement he acquired the Higham estate near Bury St. Edmunds (Suffk), which he esteemed particularly for its game shooting. This estate, which is still valued for its shooting, remains in the family today and is now centred on Desnage Lodge, a former farmhouse. Rather remarkably for an estate that has been in the same family for more than two hundred years, no country house has apparently ever been built on this property, although Desnage Lodge is now quite a substantial house.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In about 1820, Robert Barclay moved from Clapham to Knotts Green House at Leyton (Essex), a larger villa standing in its own grounds in what was then a village well beyond the suburban spread of London. This passed, together with his role as senior partner in the family bank and the Higham estate, to his only surviving son, Joseph Gurney Barclay (1816-98). Like his predecessors, Joseph was a lifelong Quaker, and he remained senior partner of the bank until it became a limited company in 1896. In some ways, Joseph is the central figure in this story, for he was by a considerable distance the wealthiest of the Barclays (leaving £900,000 at his death, excluding real estate), and it was he who sought to establish his sons as landed proprietors on a more considerable scale than any members of the family had achieved since David Barclay sold Youngsbury in 1793. For himself, he bought the Brent Pelham Hall estate in 1865 and a holiday house at Cromer in Norfolk called The Warren. In 1871 he probably assisted his eldest son, Robert Barclay (1843-1921), to buy High Leigh at Hoddesdon (Herts), and he may also have helped his second son, William Leatham Barclay, to buy The Briars at Reigate. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZARR1v4Wi5M/XJ95-NMSQdI/AAAAAAAAMMQ/otj5EwY25zgsAD9pCv8bc1FvDW50R4kdwCLcBGAs/s1600/Sutherland%2BHouse%252C%2BCromer%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZARR1v4Wi5M/XJ95-NMSQdI/AAAAAAAAMMQ/otj5EwY25zgsAD9pCv8bc1FvDW50R4kdwCLcBGAs/s400/Sutherland%2BHouse%252C%2BCromer%2B3.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Herne's Close (now Sutherland House), Cromer: built in 1886 <br />by E.J. May for Joseph Gurney Barclay.</td></tr></tbody></table>In 1886 he built a new holiday house at Cromer which he called Herne's Close (now Sutherland House) and made over The Warren to his youngest son, Lt-Col. Francis Hubert Barclay (1869-1935). After his death, Brent Pelham passed to his fourth son, Edward Exton Barclay (1860-1948) and his trustees bought the Hanworth Hall estate in Norfolk for his third son, Henry Albert Barclay (1858-1947). Herne's Close was left to his unmarried daughter, Margaret Jane Barclay (1861-1958), and the Knotts Green house, which was increasingly surrounded by the encroaching suburbs of London, became a college for medical missionaries.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In the next generation, Robert Barclay (1843-1921) of High Leigh also inherited the Higham estate. He left the Quakers and joined the Church of England, in which he became a leading lay figure. He left his properties to his son, Robert Leatham Barclay (1869-1939), who shared his religious and philanthropic interests, and who gave High Leigh to a company he had established to own and manage Christian conference centres. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SEWv-xg7tYU/XJ96dDsFwrI/AAAAAAAAMMY/GBBcBzX2QqYLdzNtFZqbH61nTwlnium3wCLcBGAs/s1600/Gaston%2BHouse%252C%2BBishops%2BStortford%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SEWv-xg7tYU/XJ96dDsFwrI/AAAAAAAAMMY/GBBcBzX2QqYLdzNtFZqbH61nTwlnium3wCLcBGAs/s400/Gaston%2BHouse%252C%2BBishops%2BStortford%2B1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gaston House, Little Hallingbury: home of R.L. Barclay<br />&nbsp;and his widow from 1906-49</td></tr></tbody></table>He lived from 1906 at Gaston House,&nbsp;Little Hallingbury (Essex), a more modest five bay, three storey Georgian house, which his widow retained until 1949, when she sold it. The Higham estate passed in 1939 to his nephew, Theodore David Barclay (1906-81), who was a director of the family bank until 1977. His son, David William Barclay (b. 1942) is the current owner of the Higham estate.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Joseph's third son, Henry Albert Barclay (1858-1947) lived at Bletchingley (Surrey) until in 1900 his father's trustees bought him the Hanworth Hall estate in Norfolk. Like several of his brothers, he abandoned the Society of Friends for the Church of England and once established in Norfolk in 1900 he threw himself enthusiastically into a career in the volunteer movement, raising a regiment and commanding it until 1913. When he died in 1947, Hanworth passed to his grandson, Maj. Michael Barclay (1913-2002), and it remains the property of his son, Mr. M.H. Barclay (b. 1938).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Joseph's fourth son, Edward Exton Barclay (1860-1948), inherited the Brent Pelham estate from his father in 1898. Although he was briefly a partner in the family bank, he retired, like his father, when the bank became a limited company in 1896, and his increased leisure enabled him to devote his whole time to hunting. He was successively Master of the North Norfolk Harriers and the Puckeridge Foxhounds continuously from 1878 until his death in 1948, which may be some sort of record, and his passion for hunting was communicated so effectively to his successors that his son, grandson and great-grandchildren have held the Mastership or joint mastership of the Puckeridge continuously since 1896. The Brent Pelham estate descended to his son, Maj. Maurice Edward Barclay (1886-1962) and grandson, Capt. Charles Barclay (1919-2002), but after the latter's death his children sold the house and a small acreage while retaining the bulk of the estate.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">One other branch of the family needs to be explored. Ford Barclay (1795-1859) was a younger son of Robert Barclay (1758-1816), who became a stockbroker rather than entering the family bank. He lived at Tooting (Surrey) and later at Walthamstow (Essex), although his houses have not been identified with certainty. His son, Henry Ford Barclay (1826-91) lived at, and perhaps built, a subtantial mid 19th century house at Woodford (Essex) called Monkhams. This seems to have been sold after his death and was given a remarkably ornate late Victorian interior by the next owner, Arnold Hills, who founded West Ham Football Club. H.F. Barclay's eldest son, Henry Gurney Barclay (1851-1936), who became vice-chairman of Barclays Bank, rented Colney Hall near Norwich from 1887, and in 1900 bought the freehold. His passion was for ornithology, and he rented the Farne Islands to protect the wild birds there at a time when they were under threat from egg collectors and others. He was succeeded at Colney Hall by his son, Capt. Evelyn Hugh Barclay (1886-1956), but after his death his widow sold the estate, and the house was greatly reduced and remodelled. H.F. Barclay's fifth son, Charles Theodore Barclay (1867-1921), who was a stockbroker and company director, leased Fanshaws near Hertford from 1909, and the lease was continued by his son, Christopher Gurney Barclay (1897-1962), but given up in 1963 after his death.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">It is remarkable that a family which for two hundred years controlled such a powerful wealth-generating machine as Barclays Bank, should not have been more successful in sustaining a country house lifestyle through the troubled 20th century. Of all the houses recorded in this article, only Hanworth remains in family possession, although the Higham and Brent Pelham estates are also Barclay owned. The reasons for the family's pattern of acquisition and disposal must be complex, but relevant factors would seem to be the close attention to business of some members of the family and the philanthropy of others who had a strong social and religious conscience. The family offers scope for a fascinating case-study of the relationship between the elite and the country house for anyone who could gain access to the relevant archives and who can study the topic in more depth than is possible here.</span><br /><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Youngsbury, Standon, Hertfordshire</span></b></h3><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Youngsbury was the manor house of the manor of Youngs in the parish of Standon, which took its name from a family that owned the lands in the 13th and 14th centuries. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">The predecessor of the present house is thought to have stood on a site some 300 yards further east, but it seems unlikely to have been </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">much more than a farmhouse as it was not mentioned in Chauncy's History of Hertfordshire (1700). In the early 18th century the estate belonged to John Bird (d. 1732), who left as his co-heiresses his four nieces, Jane, Elizabeth, Martha and Abigail. In 1740, Jane Bird bought out the shares of Elizabeth and Martha, and after she was married in 1744 to David Poole (d. 1762), a lawyer who rose in his profession to be King's Serjeant, he bought the last share from the heirs of Abigail. 1745 was therefore both the year in which the estate was reassembled and also the year (according to an inscription 'DP 1745' cut into the string course of the house and confirmed by Clutterbuck, the county historian) in which the present house was built. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1771, when the indefatigable agronomist Arthur Young visited the place, he recorded that the house was 'built by Mr. Paine', that is James Paine, who was by then one of the country's leading architects.&nbsp;The attribution to Paine is stylistically very plausible. Although it is perhaps not quite true that 'no other English architect practising in 1745 designed houses whose entire width was spanned by a pediment' as Richard Hewlings has asserted, there were certainly none for whom it became such a design staple as James Paine, as he designed six, chiefly in the 1750s, when his country house practice was at its height. Against this stylistic evidence, however, is the supposed date of 1745.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">If the house is so early, it would be one of Paine's first independent works, and it is necessary to explain how Paine might have come by the commission. The answer may be that David Poole came from Pontefract (Yorks WR), just five miles from Nostell Priory where Paine was working as clerk of works and site architect from 1737 onwards. Such a geographical link would clearly allow the two men to have met early in a number of ways, and makes it less remarkable that Youngsbury should have been one of Paine's earliest commissions. Another possibility is that, since&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">incised dates sometimes refer to ownership rather than building, the assumed date of Youngsbury is too early, and that it actually belongs to the 1750s, when Paine's other houses of a similar form were being constructed.</span><br /><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NoVJFrUxUI4/XJnw5d7fLhI/AAAAAAAAMLE/IuUPZp0LeWcrhibai-Par63Cg0ZIPPSOQCLcBGAs/s1600/Youngsbury%2B26%2B1876.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1087" data-original-width="1600" height="434" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NoVJFrUxUI4/XJnw5d7fLhI/AAAAAAAAMLE/IuUPZp0LeWcrhibai-Par63Cg0ZIPPSOQCLcBGAs/s640/Youngsbury%2B26%2B1876.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Youngsbury: the front of the house in c.1876.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The house that was built by Paine was strikingly neo-classical in style, and also remarkably small, since originally only two bays lay behind the three bay two-and-a-half storey&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">south elevation</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, with its deeply projecting pedimental gable carried on prominent paired brackets across the whole width of the front. The shallow depth of the house as first built is shown by a straight joint in the brickwork of the east front and a corresponding change in the colour of the brickwork on the west front, and is confirmed by the footprint of the house shown on a landscaping plan by Capability Brown (below). Apart from its pediment, the house was severely plain, with widely-spaced windows, and just a single stone sill band and shallow blind arches around the central first-floor window and the flanking ground-floor windows to relieve the severity.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; orphans: 2; padding: 6px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h_K1tbIBM50/XJnyk-WI7AI/AAAAAAAAMLg/D66wgE3ITrQXfzxfj63rEuMGog2t_GesgCLcBGAs/s1600/Youngsbury%2B2%2BCapability%2BBrown%2Bscheme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="963" height="462" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h_K1tbIBM50/XJnyk-WI7AI/AAAAAAAAMLg/D66wgE3ITrQXfzxfj63rEuMGog2t_GesgCLcBGAs/s640/Youngsbury%2B2%2BCapability%2BBrown%2Bscheme.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Youngsbury: Capability Brown's undated plan for landscaping the grounds.<br />Image: Hertfordshire Archives &amp; Local Studies A2845.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;">At some point in the 1750s or 1760s, Capability Brown was commissioned to make proposals for landscaping the grounds of Youngsbury. His plan, which happily survives, does not name his client, but is annotated "Plan proposed by Lancelot Brown for the Improvement of Youngsbury after remarking that Nature had do[ne] so much that little was wanting, but enlarging the River". Elements of this scheme seem from the evidence of a survey plan of 1768 by Samuel Driver to have been carried out by the time Jane Poole and her son sold Youngsbury in that year to David Barclay (1729-1809), but Barclay's memorandum book, begun in 1769, records that it was he who carried out Brown's principal recommendation to make a lake in the grounds, and this is confirmed by Arthur Young. Although we cannot be certain, therefore, it seems possible that landscaping work began in the 1750s or early 1760s alongside or soon after the completion of the house, and that it was suspended - maybe when David Poole died - only to be resumed by the new owner in 1769-70. Brown himself may not have been involved beyond producing the original plan, and the fact that the 1768 survey was made by Samuel Driver is intriguing, since Driver combined the roles of surveyor, architect, landscaper and nurseryman, and would have been an excellent person for the Pooles to engage to carry Brown's ideas into effect.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rbwhnXmLfbo/XJnxOUsqjoI/AAAAAAAAMLM/Q82ER9TLSzEkPJmMAhZxZbdhZFfZ7QXRACLcBGAs/s1600/Youngsbury%2B25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="927" height="488" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rbwhnXmLfbo/XJnxOUsqjoI/AAAAAAAAMLM/Q82ER9TLSzEkPJmMAhZxZbdhZFfZ7QXRACLcBGAs/s640/Youngsbury%2B25.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Youngsbury: the east front in 1972, showing the straight joint in the brickwork that marks the division between the original building and David Barclay's extension of c.1770. Image: Historic England.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">David Barclay (1729-1809) was a linen merchant and banker who became extremely rich, but he was also a Quaker of the strongest moral and social principles. According to Clutterbuck, he 'very much improved and increased the mansion and estate', and a comparison of estate plans of 1768 and 1793 shows that it was he who enlarged the house and built the adjoining stables and brewhouse. The enlargement increased the depth of the house from two to five bays, and must have involved the replanning of the interior. The creation of a central top-lit staircase probably dated from his time, although it has been replaced at least once and probably twice since. No architect is recorded for these works, but the severity of the completely plain exteriors is perhaps accounted for by Barclay's Quaker principles (which led him to insist his family adhered to plain Quaker dress even when King George III and his family visited his London house in 1761). The attractive stable block is actually slightly more ornamental than the addition to the house, with its pedimented centre crowned by a tall cupola and a turret clock of 1770 by Charles Penton set into the pediment.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-03Yjw35BZZ4/XJoRZjj7fBI/AAAAAAAAMLs/WMLiDWGFWUoO-7bgCLNNGtu-O8csKRlHACLcBGAs/s1600/Youngsbury%2B27%2B1896.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="1600" height="486" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-03Yjw35BZZ4/XJoRZjj7fBI/AAAAAAAAMLs/WMLiDWGFWUoO-7bgCLNNGtu-O8csKRlHACLcBGAs/s640/Youngsbury%2B27%2B1896.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Youngsbury in c.1889, showing the enlarged window, incongruous porch and single-storey addition.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; line-height: 120%;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; line-height: 120%;"><br /></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; line-height: 120%;">The Rev. Charles Giles-Puller (1834-c.1910), who was vicar of nearby&nbsp;<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">Standon</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; line-height: 120%;">, inherited Youngsbury in 1885 and remodelled the house two years later.&nbsp; He built a</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;gargantuan portico the whole height of the house on the NW side, thereby re-orientating the entrance front and upsetting the Georgian logic of the interior floor plan.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">It is thought that the central top-lit staircase may also have been altered or replaced at this time.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The ground floor windows were enlarged and fitted with plate-glass sashes, and the original modest Ionic porch on the south-west front was replaced with a rather thin-looking</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"></a>three bay porch with open arches.</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">These changes seriously disturbed the symmetry and elegance of the original house, but much worse was to come. In about 1948 the house was bought or leased by Robert Cecil Byng (1904-84), who in 1951 succeeded his uncle as 7th Earl of Strafford. Either he or his successor, <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2015/06/173-arkwright-of-mark-hall-parndon-hall.html">Commander Godfrey Wigram Arkwright</a> (who had just sold the site of Harlow new town to the Government) decided to reduce the size of the house by the drastic expedient of removing the top floor and the pitched temple roof of the property, and adapting the portico on the west side into a single-storey extension. The house was given a flat roof, which a few years later was made slightly less abrupt by the addition of a new parapet with urns at the corners.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xJ-Lft2hzaE/XJoSo6EmMpI/AAAAAAAAML0/bZOqJI6NG8QunX6WPIWuMvVxEbwQgVaQQCLcBGAs/s1600/Youngsbury%2B4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="426" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xJ-Lft2hzaE/XJoSo6EmMpI/AAAAAAAAML0/bZOqJI6NG8QunX6WPIWuMvVxEbwQgVaQQCLcBGAs/s640/Youngsbury%2B4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Youngsbury in 2012: the south and east fronts of the house after the removal of the pediment and top floor.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rJOlZS3tS74/XJoS_YhA0fI/AAAAAAAAML8/8nMRQbYmVowLxsaeuIXV9l6dUPqG_LUBQCLcBGAs/s1600/Youngsbury%2B10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rJOlZS3tS74/XJoS_YhA0fI/AAAAAAAAML8/8nMRQbYmVowLxsaeuIXV9l6dUPqG_LUBQCLcBGAs/s640/Youngsbury%2B10.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Youngsbury: the staircase from Chiswick House imported as part of the reconstruction of the house after 1948.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The change necessitated some other alterations, including the rebuilding of the staircase under a new rooflight. The existing - probably Victorian - stair was taken out and replaced by one from Chiswick House (Middx), probably from one of the wings added by John White for the 5th Duke of Devonshire in 1788-94, which were demolished in 1956. This staircase is now the principal feature of interest in the interior of the house, although other rooms have a varied selection of fireplaces of different dates, and there are simple doorcases and plaster friezes in the main rooms. In the 1970s, the setting of the house was adversely affected by Dutch Elm disease, which removed many of Brown's mature trees, and by the planning of the A10 bypass through the park (finally opened in 2004), although some care was taken to minimise the impact of this and to route it as far as possible from the house. Nonetheless, Youngsbury today is a shadow of the house it once was, and is therefore very exciting that there are currently proposals by Cowper Griffiths Architects to restore the house to its late 18th century form, reconstructing the upper floor and the pedimental gables to their original profiles, and removing the scrappy and inappropriate 19th and 20th century additions. It is very much to be hoped that permission will be given to the present owners to realise this scheme.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: John Bird (d. 1732); to nieces, of whom Jane bought out her co-heirs and married David Poole (d. 1762); sold 1768 to David Barclay (1729-1809); sold 1793 to William Cunliffe Shaw; sold 1796 to David Giles (d. 1800), Governor of the Bank of England; to son, David Giles (d. 1831); to nephew, Benjamin Giles King (d. 1840); to sister, Louisa (1772-1857), widow of Sir Christopher Puller (1774-1824), kt.; to son, Christopher William Puller (later Giles-Puller) (1807-64); to son, Arthur Giles Giles-Puller (1833-85); to brother, Rev. Charles Giles-Puller (1834-92); to widow, Emmeline Giles-Puller (d. c.1903); to son, Christopher Bernard Giles-Puller (1875-1933); to brother, Francis Charles Giles-Puller (1877-1957), who perhaps sold the estate 1946 to F.W. Parrish and house c.1948 to Robert Cecil Byng (1904-84), 7th Earl of Strafford (alternatively Byng may have been a tenant); sold c.1953 to Cmdr. Godfrey Wigram Arkwright (1901-54); to son, John Loftus Henry Arkwright (1931-2017), who sold 1958 to John Ormiston Fitzgerald; sold 1969 to The Hon. Charles Anthony Savile (1934-2018); sold 2013 to Jeremy Langmead &amp; Simon Rayner; sold 2017 to Mr &amp; Mrs James Pearce.</i></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Knotts Green House, Leyton, Essex</b></span></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The estate probably originated in a small freehold property 'at Diggons Cross' first mentioned in 1537-38.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The first house at Diggons Cross of which anything is known was assessed at 11 hearths in 1662, and at 12 in 1670 and 1674. By 1786, this house had some years since </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">been pulled down and replaced by a 'capital modern built house', presumably built by Charles Jackson.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The new house was a plain two-storey building of yellow brick with a mansard slate roof.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">From a brick dated 1791 it appears that Gilbert Slater&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">built the bow-windowed extensions on each side. In contrast to the plain exterior the interior was elaborately decorated, possibly by Slater. The entrance hall had moulded plaster panels, and other rooms were enriched by plaques, mouldings, and Adam-style ceilings, and by mahogany and satinwood doors. The first-floor landing had an open-columned screen, and open, oval balustraded gallery. Slater, a keen gardener, planted the grounds with rare items collected from China, the East Indies, and America.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Robert Barclay added an east wing to the house after 1821, and from then on the house was alternatively known as Barclay House. An astronomical observatory was built in the grounds for Joseph Gurney Barclay in 1854.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iET0IPm63Kw/XHwRelfnPzI/AAAAAAAAMEs/aBtumteGB6cIAm14MFKrjW6Og-7ZesCbgCLcBGAs/s1600/Knotts%2BGreen%2BHouse%252C%2BLeyton%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="1171" height="434" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iET0IPm63Kw/XHwRelfnPzI/AAAAAAAAMEs/aBtumteGB6cIAm14MFKrjW6Og-7ZesCbgCLcBGAs/s640/Knotts%2BGreen%2BHouse%252C%2BLeyton%2B3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Knotts Green House: the house in the late 19th century.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The estate was sold for development after the death of Joseph Gurney Barclay in 1898. The house itself became a training college for medical missionaries (Livingstone College). The house was requisitioned for military use during the Second World War and, although the college reopened, it soon moved to Reigate and the house stood empty until 1951. It was then bought by the local council, which built a block of flats (since demolished) in the garden and leased the house itself as offices until it was demolished in 1961.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: William Johnson (d. 1631); to son, Thomas Johnson; sold 1649 to Thomas Hopkins; to widow, Sarah Hopkins (fl. 1670-74); to daughter Alice, wife of Sir Thomas Lee, who sold 1698 to Peter Cartwright... Richard Burbidge sold 1786 to Charles Jackson (who had leased it since 1768); to daughter Elizabeth, wife of Gilbert Slater (d. 1793); to son, James Slater, who sold 1815 to John McTaggart (he and his father (d. 1810) had been the lessees since 1798); sold 1821 to Robert Barclay (1787-1853); to son, Joseph Gurney Barclay (1816-98); estate sold for development and house given 1900 to Livingstone College for Missionaries, which moved 1947; sold 1951 to Leyton Borough Council and leased as offices until demolished 1961. The house was leased to a Mr Johnson in 1755 and he was succeeded by George Stow, who was the tenant until Charles Jackson came in in 1768.</i></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Brent Pelham Hall, Hertfordshire</span></b></h3><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">There was a mansion house belonging to William Brooke at Brent Pelham in 1556, which was subsequently sold to Lord Morley. It was large and grand enough for him to put up Queen Elizabeth for two nights in 1571, but nothing seems to remain of this building.</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;The present&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">two-storey house is apparently early 17th century in origin (the VCH in 1914 recorded a timber lintel in the garden dated 1608, which may be indicative of the date) and was built for Edward Newport, who bought the estate in 1597 and 'built a slight but well contrived house in this manor'.&nbsp;</span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dO9eTObdZpE/XH5VhiGZUEI/AAAAAAAAMFQ/52ZOnhatTncfafwyXPBslPg9GmEh3fEPgCLcBGAs/s1600/Brent%2BPelham%2BHall%2B7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="463" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dO9eTObdZpE/XH5VhiGZUEI/AAAAAAAAMFQ/52ZOnhatTncfafwyXPBslPg9GmEh3fEPgCLcBGAs/s400/Brent%2BPelham%2BHall%2B7.jpg" width="268" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Brent Pelham Hall: the mid 17th century moulded brick <br />chimneys of the hall range. Image: Historic England</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The original building may have been timber framed, but had brick chimneystacks. Those at either end of the house which have clusters of octagonal shafts appear to have survived subsequent alterations (although it has recently been suggested that they may be early 19th century replacements). The hall chimneys are of more elaborately carved brickwork&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">and may form part of the mid 17th century changes made by Francis Floyer senior who 'adorned this House... furnisht it with all things, that nothing was wanting to make it pleasant and delightful' according to Chauncy</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. If the house was originally timber-framed, it was encased in brick towards the end of the 17th century, when it was given a fine nine bay red brick south-west front with a red tiled roof and a wooden modillion eaves cornice. This was presumably done for Francis Floyer (d. 1722) after he inherited in 1678. The two bays at either end of his new front project slightly as wings with hipped gables, and the central three bays break forward even more shallowly under a pediment containing a blocked oval lunette. The windows are excellently proportioned double hung sashes with glazing bars, and the two floors are divided by a plain brickwork band. The central doorcase (at one time obscured by a porch of c.1900 with a broken pediment) has Ionic pilasters to either side supporting a modillioned cornice.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Drapentier's view of the house in 1698 shows it in very much the same form as today, although it has lost its dormer windows at some point.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BBKnUDeHG74/XH5V3aZlOdI/AAAAAAAAMFY/bdrhTk4mcYI7gaGJIl2vVmw5cHEswmp9QCLcBGAs/s1600/Brent%2BPelham%2BHall%2B18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="876" height="474" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BBKnUDeHG74/XH5V3aZlOdI/AAAAAAAAMFY/bdrhTk4mcYI7gaGJIl2vVmw5cHEswmp9QCLcBGAs/s640/Brent%2BPelham%2BHall%2B18.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Brent Pelham Hall: the house as recorded by Drapentier in 1698 for Chauncy's <i>History of Hertfordshire</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TC9CiNMoDg4/XH5XRkAibtI/AAAAAAAAMFk/DLHPdWCfOwYgnnDT8yiVqArqhwA04cGiQCLcBGAs/s1600/Brent%2BPelham%2BHall%2B019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1600" height="352" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TC9CiNMoDg4/XH5XRkAibtI/AAAAAAAAMFk/DLHPdWCfOwYgnnDT8yiVqArqhwA04cGiQCLcBGAs/s640/Brent%2BPelham%2BHall%2B019.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Brent Pelham Hall: the main front in 2003, before the creation of the modern garden.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The plan was originally L-shaped, with a cross-wing projecting to the north from the eastern end of the main block. This is also encased in brick, and bears evidence in the form of blocked windows of various dates of much change over the years; it also has a later porch attached to the centre of the ground floor. In the late 19th or early 20th century a four-bay two-storey balancing wing was built at the western end of the main range. This has the same modillion cornice and hipped roofs as the main range, but simpler chimneys.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The interior of the house is essentially of three phases: the original early 17th century decoration; the changes made when the house was encased and modernised in the late 17th century, and the antiquarian-inspired alterations begun in 1896, when all evidence of post-17th century changes to the interior was stripped out. After 1900, a number of chimneypieces and a great deal of panelling was imported from another large house in the parish called Beeches, which had been acquired by E.E. Barclay.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5EI5lGR0Jpg/XH5XykIxyJI/AAAAAAAAMFs/WhzLgNsC0s8wfftGlh99he3WlUBRH0cggCLcBGAs/s1600/Brent%2BPelham%2BHall%2B8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="917" height="458" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5EI5lGR0Jpg/XH5XykIxyJI/AAAAAAAAMFs/WhzLgNsC0s8wfftGlh99he3WlUBRH0cggCLcBGAs/s640/Brent%2BPelham%2BHall%2B8.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Brent Pelham Hall: former entrance hall, with panelling and overmantel of the early 17th century. Image: Historic England.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The&nbsp;original entrance hall, which occupies the five bays between the wings on the south-west front, is the best-preserved early 17th century room. It has a stone fireplace with moulded four-centred arch and an early 17th century oak overmantel with two broad arched panels between the framing pilasters which look as though they have lost inset paintings or decoration. The panelling in the hall and drawing room is of the same date, but the dining room at the north end of the house has later 17th century fielded panelling and a stone fireplace bearing the Floyer arms which might be a mid-17th century introduction by the elder Francis Floyer. A staircase was built in the angle between the hall block and the south wing as part of the&nbsp;late 17th century alterations, but the present staircase seems to date from c.1900, although it is rather convincingly in late 17th century style. It has three elaborately turned and twisted balusters on each step, richly carved tread-ends, and a&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">carved panel set into the balustrade on the first-floor landing depicting the arms of Floyer impaling Boothby</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. Several other rooms, including the later entrance hall in the south wing, the study and one of the bedrooms have mid 17th-century oak panelling brought from Beeches.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e1cCpbf4WlI/XH5YNNHdvdI/AAAAAAAAMF0/EmmoYF0lJzoR3QD7IrpXut-tGMSMbEOBwCLcBGAs/s1600/Brent%2BPelham%2BHall%2B13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="781" data-original-width="597" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e1cCpbf4WlI/XH5YNNHdvdI/AAAAAAAAMF0/EmmoYF0lJzoR3QD7IrpXut-tGMSMbEOBwCLcBGAs/s640/Brent%2BPelham%2BHall%2B13.jpg" width="488" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Brent Pelham Hall: the re-ordered later 17th century staircase. Image: Historic England</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">After the house was sold in 2003, a further restoration was undertaken for the new owners which appears to have concentrated on reviving the outbuildings and stable court, although no doubt the house has been spruced up too. A new 12-acre formal garden was laid out in c.2010 to the designs of Kim Wilkie, which is occasionally open to the public under the National Gardens Scheme.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: Henry Parker, Lord Morley, sold 1597 to Edward Newport; to son, John Floyer, who sold 1626 to Francis Floyer (d. 1678); to grandson, Francis Floyer (d. 1722); to son, Thomas Floyer (d. 1743); to daughter Mary (d. 1773), later wife of Thomas Halden... John Halden (d. 1839); sold after his death to George Hallam of Furneux Pelham; to son, George Walsh Hallam (d. 1859); sold to William Heygate, who sold 1865 to Joseph Gurney Barclay (1816-98); to son, Edward Exton Barclay (1860-1948); to son, Maurice Edward Barclay (1886-1962); to son, Charles Geoffrey Edward Barclay (1919-2002); sold after his death to Michael Carrell (b. 1963), software developer, and his wife Alexandra.</i></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>High Leigh, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire</b></span></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">There was a farmhouse on this site known as High Grounds in the 18th and early 19th centuries. This was bought in about 1850 by Charles Webb, a wealthy lace maker, who built a neo-Tudor country house on the site to the designs of an unidentified architect in 1853.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CcWTSKueGVU/XJYimkFNqFI/AAAAAAAAMKg/tqPBqQmLsZw9uFB5_wRRBWXCIVXkW09xACLcBGAs/s1600/High%2BLeigh%252C%2BHoddesdon%2B4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="1024" height="410" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CcWTSKueGVU/XJYimkFNqFI/AAAAAAAAMKg/tqPBqQmLsZw9uFB5_wRRBWXCIVXkW09xACLcBGAs/s640/High%2BLeigh%252C%2BHoddesdon%2B4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">High Leigh, Hoddesdon: entrance front.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The new house was constructed around three sides of a courtyard which was dominated by a tall and rather spindly porch tower in the centre of the middle range. The house was built of brick, and had two storeys with attics and dormers, but the facades to the courtyard were irregular and somewhat wilfully composed. On the garden front the house has a variety of one and two-storey bay windows, which give it a slightly more relaxed air, but it still lacks rhythm and is busy with fussy detail. The house was given its present name after it was acquired by Robert Barclay in 1871, and has been a Christian conference centre since his death in 1921.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t_0XkIDN4WQ/XJYiQvfNqaI/AAAAAAAAMKY/yZsO38a8600XVPFlb966NHp9wWBRkx8ZgCLcBGAs/s1600/High%2BLeigh%252C%2BHoddesdon%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1600" height="404" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t_0XkIDN4WQ/XJYiQvfNqaI/AAAAAAAAMKY/yZsO38a8600XVPFlb966NHp9wWBRkx8ZgCLcBGAs/s640/High%2BLeigh%252C%2BHoddesdon%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">High Leigh, Hoddesdon: garden front. Image: Charles Hind Postcard Collection.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The grounds of High Leigh are perhaps of greater note than the house, for successive 19th century owners ornamented them with the products of the Pulham &amp; Co. factory, which stood only a mile or so away. A plan of 1859 shows what may have been a Pulham fountain, and a description of 1865 clearly describes a rock arch which survives in the grounds. After the sale to Robert Barclay in 1871, arable land was converted to parkland with a lake and bridges across the Spitalbrook, a carriage drive and lodge, and a new rockwork feature south west of the parterre, with a grotto, cave, and cascades. Part of the park was gifted to the people of Hoddesdon as a park in 1935.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: built for Charles Webb (d. 1862); sold after his death to Duncan Kay; sold 1871 to Robert Barclay (1843-1921); to son, Robert Leatham Barclay (1869-1939), who gave it to First Conference Estate Ltd., which remains the owner and operates it as High Leigh Conference Centre.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Colney Hall, Norfolk</b></span></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The house now known as Colney Old Hall was probably built in the 16th century as the manor house, and it was evidently still the centre of the property in the mid 17th century, when grand, if slightly rustic, Artisan Mannerist gatepiers were erected as a new entrance to the property. A new house - the present Colney Hall - was built on a different site further west in the 18th century. According to Armstrong's <i>History of Norfolk </i>(1781), this was built for Jeremiah Norris, who inherited in 1767, but the three-storey seven by two bay brick house looks a generation earlier than that. The facade was articulated originally only by rusticated pilaster strips defining the three bay centre and the angles on the two main fronts, and the house would be more typical of the 1740s.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lZHuRb-U5xw/XJPAD3PvBMI/AAAAAAAAMJk/YIFhMV2z6v04PRTLsFDkwrZ5cp5EQdtbwCLcBGAs/s1600/Colney%2BHall%252C%2BNorwich%2B14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="736" height="454" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lZHuRb-U5xw/XJPAD3PvBMI/AAAAAAAAMJk/YIFhMV2z6v04PRTLsFDkwrZ5cp5EQdtbwCLcBGAs/s640/Colney%2BHall%252C%2BNorwich%2B14.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Colney Hall: garden front shortly before reduction in 1958. Image: Historic England.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">By the time of the earliest photographs, the house had acquired two storey projecting bays on the garden front, with Venetian windows on the ground floor and tripartite windows above. These late 18th or early 19th century changes were followed by more extensive and less tactful additions made after 1834 for Joseph Scott and around 1900, probably for H.G. Barclay.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bwUaDj1SNKA/XJPAsnSpkqI/AAAAAAAAMJ0/eJfxs0efGSM863Z83RPLkFPcXIaKwwltQCLcBGAs/s1600/Colney%2BHall%252C%2BNorwich%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="958" height="416" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bwUaDj1SNKA/XJPAsnSpkqI/AAAAAAAAMJ0/eJfxs0efGSM863Z83RPLkFPcXIaKwwltQCLcBGAs/s640/Colney%2BHall%252C%2BNorwich%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Colney Hall: garden front and grotto after recent restoration, 2010. Image: Caters News Agency.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"></div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1957 the Barclay family sold the estate to R.G. Lawrence, a local property developer, who made drastic alterations to the house, including the demolition of a large part of the original house. The small fragment that remained was coated in white stucco and given limp and unconvincing neo-Georgian details including a veranda and a pedimental gable above a tripartite window on the garden front. The house was sold for commercial use in 1976 and was in very poor condition by the time it was bought in 1996 by the Boddy family, who restored it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WKfUOOOT1cQ/XJPBYStI3iI/AAAAAAAAMKA/CzZEvL2PqPwLOf3VCdbm-LHFL5J0TBgpQCLcBGAs/s1600/Colney%2BHall%252C%2BNorwich%2B9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="958" height="414" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WKfUOOOT1cQ/XJPBYStI3iI/AAAAAAAAMKA/CzZEvL2PqPwLOf3VCdbm-LHFL5J0TBgpQCLcBGAs/s640/Colney%2BHall%252C%2BNorwich%2B9.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Colney Hall: interior of the orangery, 2010. Image: Caters News Agency.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">A small park containing landscaped grounds existed around the house by 1834, and probably earlier. The landscaping was augmented after H.G. Barclay acquired the property in 1887. A walled formal sunken garden was laid out by Edward Boardman, and a rose garden enclosed by yew hedges was created. More unusual for its date was the grotto set into the slope below the house, a dark curving tunnel of Pulhamite stonework, which was echoed in the orangery of c.1900 attached to the house, which has splendid tufa rockwork. The orangery and grotto happily survive and have, like the house, recently been restored.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: built for Jeremiah Norris (fl. 1767-91); sold c.1790 to John Patteson, who let and sold c.1798 to Jehosophat Postle, who sold c.1834 to Joseph Scott (d. 1873); to son, Joseph Scott, who sisters lived at the house; sold 1880 to trustees of John Nigel Gurney, who let it to tenants; from 1887 the tenant was Hugh Gurney Barclay (1851-1936), who bought the freehold in 1900; to son, Capt. Evelyn Hugh Barclay (1886-1956); to widow, Phyllis Barclay (1890-1982), who sold 1957 to Ronald George Lawrence, who reduced and remodelled the house; sold 1976 to Robert &amp; Eileen Harrington; sold 1985 to Mrs Yoko Sugiara Conlan; sold 1996 to Anthony &amp; Sharon Boddy.</i></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Hanworth Hall, Norfolk</span></b></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The manor house of the Doughty family at Hanworth, assessed on 10 hearths in 1662-65, seems to have burned down in the late 17th century. It was rebuilt by Robert Doughty, whose father had augmented the family fortune through trading activities with Barbados but died shortly after returning home in 1673. Robert (d. 1742), who lived well into his 80s, commissioned a plain but finely-built double pile house in the years around 1700, reputedly after a fire had destroyed the previous house. It forms a rectangular block of red brick, two storeys in height and nine bays by four, with a three-bay pediment on the east front and a hipped roof rising behind a plain parapet. The chimneystacks visible on the entrance front are symmetrically disposed, to ensure the perfect symmetry of the facade, but on the west side the fenestration and the dormer windows in the roof are irregular. The entrance doorcase on the east front has brick pilasters under stone Tuscan capitals, and a big bulgy frieze. Between the floors there is a platband, but there are no quoins or architraves to the windows. The windows were perhaps sashes from the start, and preserve their original sash boxes, if not their original glazing.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NVzI3nHtAIg/XH1EBPaH9sI/AAAAAAAAMFE/-Sqj7rQ6GSYiMoW19J7P7TVKF1sAWzcwwCLcBGAs/s1600/Hanworth%2BHall%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="990" height="394" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NVzI3nHtAIg/XH1EBPaH9sI/AAAAAAAAMFE/-Sqj7rQ6GSYiMoW19J7P7TVKF1sAWzcwwCLcBGAs/s640/Hanworth%2BHall%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Hanworth Hall: the entrance front and side elevation, c.1910. from an old postcard.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The interiors of c.1700 are remarkably well preserved, except in the first-floor drawing room. The front door leads into a large (30x20') entrance hall occupying the middle three bays of the facade, and has doorcases and a fireplace with the same bulgy frieze as the entrance doorcase. North and south of the hall lie the dining room and morning room respectively, finely panelled with dado, chair rail and a simple cornice. The original and perhaps rather old-fashioned staircase of c.1700 is preserved, and has a broad handrail and a balustrade with a single quite elaborate twisted baluster with a bulbous lower part to each step and a closed string; the large square newels are plainly panelled. The staircase takes the visitor up to a first-floor drawing room which has the same dimensions and much the same layout as the hall beneath, but which was remodelled in c.1742-43 by the elder Matthew Brettingham (d. 1769) for Robert Doughty (1717-70), the grandson of the builder of the house, to whom it was transferred on his coming of age in 1738. Brettingham must have been responsible for the fine carved wood overmantel with an open pediment enclosing remarkably frilly plasterwork decoration of foliage and fruit, similar to one at nearby Gunton Hall, where he was working at the same time.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1789-90, Humphry Repton, who lived at Sustead Old Hall in the next village, provided some <i>pro bono&nbsp;</i>advice on landscaping the park at Hanworth to Robert Lee Doughty (1749-1819), and helped him stake out the line of a new approach drive and a walk from the house to the kitchen garden. He also made two watercolours,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">now in the Colman Collection at Norwich Library,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">one of which (with his characteristic flap) illustrates his proposal for opening up the view from the east front. He also included an engraving of the house in </span><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Peacock's Polite Repository </i><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">for 1793, when work was probably complete or approaching completion.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">R.L. Doughty was married but had no children, so on his death he left the estate jointly to two of his nephews, Philip Mayow and Admiral W.F. Lukin (later Windham). The latter also inherited Felbrigg Hall nearby. Windham's share descended to his son, W.H. Windham, who reunited the estate by also purchasing the Mayow share in 1845. It descended to his son, W.F. Windham (known as Mad Windham) who ran up large debts. His widow inherited the house and added a new service wing at the rear in 1881, which cannot have helped with the bills. In the end, the patience of the mortgagees was exhausted and they foreclosed on the estate and sold it to the trustees of Joseph Gurney Barclay (1816-98) for the use of his third son, Henry Albert Barclay (1858-1947), and it remains the property of his descendants. The house and grounds are much as they were in 1900, the only significant later alterations being the enlargement of the lake in about 1900.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: Thomas Doughty (b. c.1500)... William Doughty (d. 1653); to son, Robert Doughty (d. 1669); to half-brother, William Doughty (d. 1673); to son, Robert Doughty (c.1656-1742); to grandson, Robert Doughty (1717-57 or 1770); to son, Robert Lee Doughty (1749-1819); to nephews, Philip Wynell-Mayow and Admiral W.F. Lukin (later Windham); to W.H. Windham (who inherited one share from his father and purchased the other in 1845); to son W.F. Windham (d. by 1880); to widow; sold by mortgagees to Joseph Gurney Barclay (1816-98) for his son Henry Albert Barclay (1858-1947); to son, Rev. Humphrey Gordon Barclay (1882-1955); to son, Henry Michael Barclay (1913-2002); to son, Michael Humphrey Barclay (b. 1938).</i></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Barclay family of Youngsbury, Knotts Green, Higham and Colney Hall</span></b></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, David (1682-1769). </b>Second son of Robert Barclay (1648-90) of Urie House and his wife Christian, daughter of Gilbert Mollison, born 1682. He moved to London in about 1698 and bound himself apprentice to James Taylor, linen draper, with whom he was later associated in business. He became a member of the Drapers Company (Freeman, 1706; Assistant, 1729) and paid fines to be excused serving his turn as Warden in 1746 and Master in 1756. He established a successful linen import-export business buying German, Scottish and Irish linen for export to the colonies in North America, and in due course he was joined in this concern by his sons Alexander (who went to Philadelphia in 1749 and managed the American end of the business) and John. He married 1st, 12 June 1707, Anne (c.1689-1720), daughter of James Taylor of London, and 2nd, 8 August 1723, Priscilla (1702-69), daughter of John Freame of London, banker, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) James Barclay (1708-66) (<i>q.v.</i>);&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Robert Barclay (1709-12), born 5 August 1709; died young, 17 November 1712;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.3)&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Alexander Barclay (1711-71) [for whom see the previous post on the </span><a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/03/368-barclay-of-bury-hill-and-eastwick.html" style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Barclays of Bury Hill and Eastwick Park</a><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">];</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.4) Elizabeth Barclay (1714-45), born 21 April 1714; married, 8 September 1735, Timothy Bevan (1704-86), banker, and had issue three sons and one daughter; died of consumption, 30 June and was buried at Bunhill Fields, 3 July 1745;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.5) Christiana Barclay (1715-31), born 7 August 1715; died unmarried, 'according to the report of two neighbours, of Fitts', 24 September and was buried at Bunhill Fields, 28 September 1731;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.6) Anne (aka Jane) Barclay (1716-85?), born 21 January 1716; married, 10 August 1739 at St John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London, as his second wife, James Collinson (1695-1762), banker, partner in Brown, Collinson &amp; Tritton, and had issue one daughter; possibly the Jane Collinson buried at the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection burial ground, Spa Fields, 29 April 1785;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.7) Patience Barclay (1718-81), born 29 November 1718; married 1st, 1745 (licence 9 May), John Stedman and 2nd, 11 August 1757 at Tottenham (Middx) Monthly Meeting, Thomas Weston, but had no issue; died 6 June 1781 and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 14 June 1781; will proved 14 July 1784;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1) Priscilla Barclay (1724-25), born in or after May 1724; died in infancy, 12 February 1724/5 and was buried at Bunhill Fields;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.2) Katherine Barclay (1727-84), born 1 March 1727; married, 17 April 1750 at Tottenham Monthly Meeting, Daniel Bell (1726-1802) of Tottenham (Middx), coal merchant, son of Daniel Bell of Tottenham, and had issue ten children; died 19 October 1784 and was buried at Winchmore Hill;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.3) John Barclay (1728-87) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.4) David Barclay (1729-1809) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.5) Robert Barclay (1731-47), born about 1731; died 16 October and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 20 October 1747;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.6) Richenda Barclay (c.1733-1800), born about 1733; married, 13 March 1755 at Enfield (Middx), Nathaniel Springall (1732-1803) of Norwich, weaver, and had issue one son and five daughters; died at Tottenham, 7 January 1800;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.7) Caroline Barclay (c.1734-69), born about 1734; married, 4 October 1757 at Tottenham, John Lindoe (1726-95) of Norwich and had issue two sons and two daughters; died 22 October 1769 and was buried at Norwich;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.8) Christiana Barclay (c.1735-96), born about 1735; married 1st, 2 September 1755 at Tottenham, Joseph Gurney (1729-61), and had issue two daughters; married 2nd, 1767, her cousin, John Freame (1729-70); and married 3rd, c.1772, Sir William Watson (1744-1824), kt., of Bath, physician and naturalist; died 25 December 1796 and was buried at Exeter Quaker Burial Ground, 1 January 1797;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.9) An unnamed son (b. &amp; d. 1736), born September 1736; died aged about two weeks, 9 October and was buried at Bunhill Fields, 12 October 1736;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.10) Lucy Barclay (1737?-57), said to have been born in 1737; married, 3 June 1756 at Tottenham Monthly Meeting, Robert Barclay (1732-97) of Urie (who m2, 2 December 1776, Sarah Ann, daughter of&nbsp;<a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2013/12/92-allardice-later-barclay-allardice-of.html">James Allardice of Allardice</a>&nbsp;and had further issue three sons and five daughters), son of Robert Barclay of Urie, and had issue one daughter; died 23 March and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 29 March 1757.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived opposite St Mary-le-Bow at 107-108 Cheapside, London, a fine late 17th century house built after the Great Fire of London. It had a first-floor panelled drawing room with a balcony commanding a fine view along Cheapside, from which the royal family are recorded as watching civic processions in 1671, 1689, 1708 and 1761. The house was demolished in 1861 and the panelling is said to have been removed to Gregynog Hall in Wales. In later years David Barclay also had a house at Bush Hill, Edmonton (Middx), which he inherited through his second wife from her grandfather, John Freame, and which he bequeathed to his youngest son, David.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 18 March and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 23 March 1769; his will was proved 15 April 1769 (wealth at death £100,000). His first wife died 3 December 1720. His second wife died 9 October 1769.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, James (1708-66). </b>Eldest son of David Barclay (1682-1769) and his first wife, Anne, daughter of James Taylor of London, linen draper</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, born in Cheapside, 5 July 1708. He became the first member of the family to take up banking in London, in partnership with John and Joseph Freame as Freame &amp; Barclay. He married, 1733, Sarah (1708-69), daughter of John Freame, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Joseph Barclay (1733-97), born 19 February 1733; lived at Lancaster (Lancs) and latterly at Brook Green, Hammersmith (Middx); died unmarried and without issue, 28 February, and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 6 March 1797; by his will, proved 1 February 1798, he left most of his property to Mary, daughter of the portrait painter Thomas Hickey of Dublin;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Alexander Barclay (b. 1735), born 21 January 1734/5; died without issue;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Anne Barclay (c.1737-57); married, 7 April 1756, James Allardice of Allardice (Kincardines.) and had issue one daughter (Sarah Anne, who married 1st, Robert Barclay of Urie, and 2nd, John Nudd); died July 1757;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Jane Barclay (c.1738-50), born about 1738; died 1 July and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 5 July 1750.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Bush Hill, Edmonton (Middx).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died of tuberculosis in London, 20 February and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 27 February 1766. His widow died in 1769.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, David (1729-1809). </b>Youngest surviving son of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">David Barclay (1682-1769) and his second wife Priscilla, daughter of John Freame of London, banker, born 1729</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. Merchant in London and partner in the Barclay, Bevan &amp; Co. bank from 1776. He inherited an estate in Jamaica with many slaves, all of whom he emancipated and instructed in trades and handicrafts before resettling them in Pennsylvania. In 1774, motivated by the damage to Anglo-American trade caused by the struggle for American independence, he attempted to mediate a compromise between Benjamin Franklin and the American colonists and the British government, but this was ultimately unsuccessful. He had wide-ranging charitable interests, founded a House of Industry at Youngsbury, and was a trustee of the Quaker School at Ackworth (Yorks). He married 1st, 6 July 1749 at Enfield (Middx), Martha (c.1724-63), daughter of John Hudson of London, hop merchant, and 2nd, 15 October 1767, Rachel (d. 1792), daughter of Sampson Lloyd, banker of Birmingham, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Agatha Barclay (1753-76), born 13 October 1753; married Richard Gurney (who m2, Rachel Hanbury) of Keswick Hall (Norfk), and had issue one son; died 31 May 1776.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Walthamstow (Essex) until 1768, when he bought the Youngsbury (Herts) estate from Jane Poole. He enlarged the house, built the stables and probably completed the landscaping of the site c.1770, but sold Youngsbury again in 1793 when his health began to deteriorate, and moved to the family house at Bush Hill, Edmonton. He seems also to have had a house (perhaps the one he had occupied before 1768) at Walthamstow, where he died in 1809.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 30 May and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 6 June 1809; his will was proved 19 June 1809. His first wife died 20 April and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 28 April 1763. His second wife died 12 June and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 19 June 1792.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, John (1728-87). </b>Elder son of David Barclay (1682-1769) and his second wife Priscilla, daughter of John Freame of London, banker, born 1728. He at first joined his father's linen export business, but after this was wound down during the American War of Independence, he devoted more of his time to the Barclay, Bevan, Barclay and Benning bank, of which he became a partner by 1781 at the latest. He was also one of the parties to financing the purchase by his nephew, Robert Barclay (1751-1830) [for whom see <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/03/368-barclay-of-bury-hill-and-eastwick.html">my earlier post on the brewing Barclays</a>], of the Anchor brewery in Southwark. He had an option to become a partner in the brewery if he so wished, which he did not exercise. He married, 16 February 1756 at Devonshire Square Meeting House, London, Susanna Willett (1739-1805), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Mary Barclay (1756-1827), born 18 October 1756; married John Henton Tritton (1755-1833), who in 1785 became a partner in the Barclay, Bevan &amp; Co. bank, and had issue three sons and three daughters; buried at Beddington (Surrey), 3 March 1827;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Robert Barclay (1758-1816) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) David Barclay (1763-1800), born at Hackney, 5 April 1763; probably a merchant in India; died unmarried at Madras (India), August 1800, although news of his death did not reach England until May 1801;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Susannah Willett Barclay (1769-1818), born 5 February 1769; married, 19 August 1789 at the Quaker Meeting House, Gracechurch St., London, Osgood Hanbury (1765-1852), banker, son of Osgood Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Coggeshall (Essex) and had issue six sons and four daughters; died 26 August and was buried at Coggeshall Quaker Burial Ground, 2 September 1818;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Priscilla Lucy Barclay (1774-1820), born 21 December 1774; lived at Brixton (Surrey); married William Hall (1770-1819) and had issue two daughters; buried at St Mary, Lambeth (Surrey), 9 August 1820.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Cambridge Heath, Hackney (Middx).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 18 December and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 27 December 1787; his will was proved 27 February 1788. His widow died 31 July and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 7 August 1805; her will was proved 7 November 1805.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Robert (1758-1816). </b>Elder son of John Barclay (1728-87) and his wife Susanna Willet, born in London, 25 September 1758. Banker with Barclay, Tritton, Bevan &amp; Co., becoming a partner after the death of his uncle David Barclay in 1809. He was a lifelong&nbsp; Quaker and became one of the leaders of the Society of Friends; he was also deeply interested in astronomy, and built an observatory in the grounds of his house at Clapham. He married, 22 May 1783, Ann (1763-1801), daughter of Isaac Ford of Manchester, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Anne Ford Barclay (1785-94), born 8 September 1785; died young, 6 July and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 13 July 1794;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Robert Barclay (1787-1853) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Susanna Barclay (1788-1852), born 19 August 1788; lived at Forest Place, Leytonstone; died unmarried, 3 May 1852 and was buried at Leyton (Essex); her will was proved 19 May 1852;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) John Barclay (1790-96), born at Clapham, 20 April 1790; died young, 2 January 1796 and was buried at Winchmore Hill;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Mary Barclay (1792-1859), born 18 February 1792; married, 12 July 1815 at Croydon Quaker Meeting, Hubert John Barclay Galton (1789-1864), of Warley Tor (Shrops.), son of Samuel Galton, banker, of Great Barr Hall (Staffs); died 1859;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Abram Rawlinson Barclay (1793-1845), born 1</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> September 1793; a committed Quaker, he edited <i>Letters etc. of early Friends</i>,&nbsp;<i>A selection from the letters and papers of the late John Barclay</i>&nbsp;(1847) and other works;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">died unmarried, 4 February 1845; will proved 19 February 1845;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) Ford Barclay (1795-1859) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(8) John Barclay (1797-1838), of London; born 8 May 1797; a minister and leader in the Society of Friends; edited <i>The diary of Alexander Jaffray </i>(1838); married 1st, 19 October 1820 at Paignton (Devon), Georgina (c.1798-1823), daughter of Maj. Thomas Hill of 47th Regt. and had issue one son; married 2nd, 3 May 1826, Mary (1796-1876) (who m2, 1846, as his second wife, George Stacey (1786-1857), pharmaceutical chemist), daughter of William Moates of Southwark (Surrey), and had further issue one son and one daughter; died 15 June 1838 and was buried at Winchmore Hill;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(9) Lydia Anne Barclay (1799-1855), born 25 October 1799; a minister in the Society of Friends from 1835; lived at Croydon, Reigate and Aberdeen before moving in 1854 to Cockermouth (Cumbria); her letters were published posthumously in 1862; died unmarried, 31 January 1855; will proved 28 February 1855;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(10) Elizabeth Lucy Barclay (1800-74), born 7 November 1800; married, 31 July 1823 at Friends Meeting House, Westminster (Middx), as his second wife, Henry Birkbeck (1787-1848) of Kings Lynn and Norwich, banker, and had issue four sons and four daughters; died at Keswick (Norfk), 7 December 1874; will proved 20 January 1875 (estate under £250,000).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He probably built the substantial five-bay Georgian house at 30 North Side, Clapham Common (Surrey) where he lived after his marriage, and also had a town house in Tavistock Sq., London. His Clapham house was later the home of the architect Sir Charles Barry and became the Hostel of God (now Royal Trinity Hospice) in 1891.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died at Clapham, 25 January, and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 2 February 1816; his will was proved 6 March 1816. His wife died 29 March and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 5 April 1801.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Robert (1787-1853). </b>Eldest son of Robert Barclay (1758-1816) and his wife Ann, daughter of Isaac Ford of Manchester, born 14 February 1787. As a young man he joined the London bank, Barclay, Tritton, Bevan &amp; Co., and he succeeded his father as a partner in 1816. He was a lifelong Quaker and took a great interest in philanthropic activities. He was also a keen sportsman, and enjoyed the shooting on the Higham estate which he acquired through his marriage. He married, 29 June 1814, Elizabeth (1790-1835), daughter of Joseph Gurney of Lakenham Grove (Norfk), worsted manufacturer and banker, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Robert Barclay (1815-42), born 20 April 1815; married, 5 September 1841 at Darlington, Eliza (1812-84), daughter of John Backhouse of Darlington, banker, but died without issue, 4 May 1842;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Joseph Gurney Barclay (1816-98) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Jane Mary Barclay (1818-99), born 1 July 1818; after her mother died when she was seventeen, she played a major part in bringing up her younger siblings; she had a strong Quaker faith and, rather against her father's wishes, adopted traditional Quaker dress; she lived at Knotts Green until 1862 when she moved into a separate house at Walthamstow (Essex), which she shared with a Scottish friend, Charlotte Thomson (1835-1902), who was evidently a life partner rather than a mere companion; she died unmarried, 27 January 1899; will proved 22 March 1899 (estate £116,546);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Elizabeth Gurney Barclay (1820-45), born 8 May 1820; died unmarried at Torquay (Devon), 20 November 1845;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Ann Ford Barclay (1822-1913), born 18 February 1822; active as a Quaker minister and temperance advocate; married, 19 October 1848 at Woodford (Essex), Henry Fowler (1823-80) of Melksham (Wilts), tea dealer, and had issue four sons and six daughters; died aged 91 at Glebe Lands, Woodford, 10 March 1913; will proved 29 May 1913 (estate £39,522);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Emma Lucy Barclay (1823-47), born 4 November 1823; died unmarried, 21 September 1847;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) Rachel Barclay (1826-98), born 3 January 1826; married,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">8 May 1851 at the Friends Meeting House, Plaistow (Essex),&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2017/08/303-backhouse-of-darlington.html">Alfred Backhouse JP (1822-88)</a> of Pilmore Hall and Dryerdale, Darlington (Co. Durham), banker, but had no issue; died 15 November 1898 and was buried in the Friends' Burial Ground, Darlington; will proved 24 December 1898 (estate £33,502);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(8) Henry Barclay (1829-51), born 25 October 1829; died unmarried at Tunbridge Wells (Kent), 13 October 1851;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(9) Louisa Barclay (1834-47), born 22 February 1834; died young, 4 July 1847.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He purchased Knotts Green House in 1820, and acquired the Higham estate through his marriage in 1814.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 28 October 1853 and was buried at Winchmore Hill; his will was proved 23 November 1853. His wife died 28 August and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 3 September 1835.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CaeGA3KH408/XJZhHwHHZMI/AAAAAAAAMK4/Qu0n74J4vfoVgvjUc63b2-9s3f1KqwfuACLcBGAs/s1600/Barclay%252C%2BJoseph%2BGurney%2B1816-98.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="200" height="150" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CaeGA3KH408/XJZhHwHHZMI/AAAAAAAAMK4/Qu0n74J4vfoVgvjUc63b2-9s3f1KqwfuACLcBGAs/s200/Barclay%252C%2BJoseph%2BGurney%2B1816-98.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Joseph Gurney Barclay (1816-98)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Joseph Gurney (1816-98). </b>Second, but eldest surviving, son of Robert Barclay (1787-1853) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Gurney of Lakenham Grove (Norfk), born 18 October 1816. Educated privately at home. Banker with Barclay, Bevan, Tritton &amp; Co from an early age; he succeeded his father as senior partner in 1853 and remained at the helm of the bank until its incorporation in 1896. He was brought up a Quaker in religion and remained a member of the Society of Friends throughout his life, but his philanthropic activities extended to supporting the London City Mission and acting as Treasurer to the British &amp; Foreign Bible Society.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He was interested in literature and the sciences, and was, like his grandfather and his kinsman, <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/03/368-barclay-of-bury-hill-and-eastwick.html">Arthur Kett Barclay of Bury Hill</a>, a keen amateur astronomer and meteorologist, and built an observatory in the gardens of Knotts Green House in 1862; he was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1855 and a life member of the Meteorological Society.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;He was a Liberal in politics and a close friend of John Bright.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He married 1st, 9 June 1842 at Wakefield (Yorks WR), Mary Walker (1818-48), daughter of William Leatham of Wakefield, and 2nd, 1857, Margaret (1830-1905), daughter of William Exton of Hitchin (Herts), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Robert Barclay (1843-1921) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) William Leatham Barclay (1845-93); educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (matriculated 1865; BA 1869; MA 1882) and Lincoln's Inn (admitted 1868; called 1871); barrister-at-law and banker; partner in Barclay, Bevan, Tritton &amp; Co., 1880-88, when he retired on the merger with Ransom, Bouverie &amp; Co.; he remained a Quaker throughout his life; lived at The Briars, Reigate (Surrey); married 1st, 20 Jun 1872, Annetta Emilia (1847-73), daughter of Joseph Tritton of Bloomfield, Norwood (Surrey) and had issue one daughter; married 2nd, 19 July&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">1877 at the Friends Meeting House, Westminster (Middx), Ellen (1852-99), daughter of Jasper Capper Mounsey, iron merchant; died, after several years as an invalid, 6 January 1893; will proved 11 March 1893 (estate £63,987);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.3) Elizabeth Gurney Barclay (1847-49), born Jan-Mar 1847; died in infancy, Jul-Sept 1849;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1) Henry Albert Barclay (1858-1947) [see below, Barclay of Hanworth Hall];</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.2) Edward Exton Barclay (1860-1948) [see below, Barclay of Brent Pelham Hall];</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.3) Margaret Jane Barclay (1861-1958), born 18 October 1861;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">lived at Herne Close, Cromer;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">died unmarried, 25 September 1958; will proved 7 November 1958 (estate £50,873);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.4) Mary Elizabeth Gurney Barclay (1863-1941), born 11 August 1863; lived latterly at Godalming (Surrey); married, 6 January 1886, Claude Leatham (1856-1913), son of William Henry Leatham of Hemsworth Hall (Yorks), and had issue three sons and two daughters; died 24 January 1941; will proved 26 May 1941 (estate £3,807);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.5) Alfred Gordon Barclay (1866-68), born Oct-Dec 1866; died in infancy, Apr-Jun 1868;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.6) Lt-Col. Francis Hubert Barclay (1869-1935), born 16 September 1869; educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (matriculated 1888; BA 1891; MA 1904); served in the First World War with the Bedfordshire Regiment (Lt-Col.; twice mentioned in despatches); lived at The Warren, Cromer and devoted himself to work for the benefit of the town and of Norfolk more generally; formed geological, entomological and archaeological collections which he bequeathed to Norwich Castle Museum; JP for Norfolk; High Sheriff of Norfolk, 1919-20; married, 25 January 1900, Hannah Maud MBE (1872-1931), third daughter of Edward North Buxton, and had issue two sons and three daughters; died 28 January 1935; will proved 4 April 1935 (estate £151,383).</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He inherited Knotts Green House, Leyton and the Higham estate in Suffolk from his father in 1853. He purchased Brent Pelham Hall in 1865 and his trustees bought Hanworth Hall c.1900. He also had a house at Cromer for summer holidays: initially The Warren and later Herne's Close (now Sutherland House), which he built to the designs of E.J. May in 1886. At his death, his properties were distributed among his surviving children.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 25 April 1898; his will was proved 15 June 1898 (estate £900,302). His first wife died 10 February 1848. His widow died 25 June 1905; her will was proved 19 August 1905 (estate £22,280).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W1k05ZKgrbE/XJZEdjyxGCI/AAAAAAAAMKs/71gKuaJBzaAAY2kWwg6OMoODpm3he8PdQCLcBGAs/s1600/Barclay%252C%2BRobert%2B1843-1921.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="390" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W1k05ZKgrbE/XJZEdjyxGCI/AAAAAAAAMKs/71gKuaJBzaAAY2kWwg6OMoODpm3he8PdQCLcBGAs/s320/Barclay%252C%2BRobert%2B1843-1921.jpg" width="193" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Robert Barclay (1843-1921)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Robert (1843-1921). </b>Elder son of Joseph Gurney Barclay (1816-98) and his first wife, Mary Walker, daughter of William Leatham of Wakefield, born 13 December 1843. Educated at Tottenham and possibly at London University. Banker; partner in Barclay, Bevan, Tritton &amp; Co., 1866-96; director of Barclays Bank 1896-1910. JP for Hertfordshire (and for many years chairman of Cheshunt Petty Sessions); High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, 1893-94. He left the Quakers and joined the Church of England, and became Treasurer of the British &amp; Foreign Bible Society, and of the Bishop of St. Albans' Fund. He married, 12 February 1868, Elizabeth Ellen (1848-1919), daughter of Thomas Fowell Buxton of Easneye (Herts) and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Robert Leatham Barclay (1869-1939) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Mary Dorothea Barclay (1871-1955), born 19 May 1871 and baptised at Islington Presbyterian church, 11 December 1874; married 1st, 15 September 1897, Rev. Edward Bachelor Russell (1852-1900), vicar of Leyton (who was killed in a cycling accident), and had issue two sons; married 2nd, 24 July 1936,&nbsp;<a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2015/07/176-armitage-of-farnley-hall-and-noan.html">Robert Armitage (1866-1944)</a>&nbsp;of Farnley Hall, Leeds (Yorks WR), but had no further issue; died at Shorne (Kent), 14 April 1955; will proved 24 June 1955 (estate £11,528);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Clemence Rachel Barclay (1874-1952) born 21 September&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">and baptised at Islington Presbyterian church, 11 December 1874</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">; married, 30 July 1903, Rt. Rev. Edward Sydney Woods DD (1877-1953), Lord Bishop of Lichfield, son of Rev. Frank Woods, and had issue three sons and three daughters; died 14 October 1952; will proved 2 March 1953 (estate £2,302);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Rev. David Buxton Barclay (1876-1954) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Joseph Gurney Barclay (1879-1976), born 9 February and baptised at Stanstead Abbots (Herts), 24 May 1879; educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1897; BA 1900; MA 1904); he entered the family bank but left in 1908 to become an evangelical missionary in Japan, where he lived until 1926, when he returned to work for the Church Missionary Society at home; married 1st, 25 May 1905, Gillian Mary (1883-1909), eldest daughter of Henry Birkbeck of Westacre (Norfk) and had issue one son; married 2nd, 10 March 1915, Gwendoline Rose BA (1885-1976), daughter of Dr. Herbert Watney MD FRCP of Buckhold (Berks), and had issue three sons and one daughter; died aged 97 at Troutstream Hall, Rickmansworth (Herts), 15 May 1976; will proved 2 November 1976 (estate £112,251);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Rev. Gilbert Arthur Barclay (1882-1972), born 21 February 1882; educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1900; BA 1903; MA 1907); ordained deacon, 1907 and priest, 1908; vicar of St John, Carlisle, 1912-15; served in First World War as a chaplain in the Territorial Army, 1915-19; vicar of Glen Magna, 1927-32; rector of Great Holland (Essex), 1932-39; vicar of Cromer (Norfk), 1939-46; rural dean of Repps, 1940-46; rector of Langley near Maidstone (Kent), 1946; married, 14 February 1912, Dorothy Catherine (k/a Topsy) (1891-1980), daughter of Charles Thomas Studd, cricketer, and had issue three sons and two daughters; died at Wheathampstead (Herts), 10 May 1972; will proved 30 May 1972 (estate £3,421);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) Rachel Elizabeth Barclay (1885-1932), born 11 June 1885; died unmarried after a long illness, 3 September 1932; will proved 24 November 1932 (estate £28,892);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(8) Christina Octavia Barclay (1887-1975), born 23 May 1887; lived at Hildenborough (Kent); died unmarried, 29 September and was buried at Hildenborough (Kent), 3 October 1975; will proved 17 November 1975 (estate £105,085).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Knotts Green House, Leyton and the Higham estate from his father in 1898, but sold the former estate for development and gave the house for use as a college for medical missionaries. He lived at High Leigh, Hoddesdon (Herts) and The Grove, Cromer (Norfk), and also had a house at Tarvie (Perthshire).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 19 July 1921; his will was proved 16 September 1921 (estate £425,759). His wife died 20 September 1919; administration of her goods was granted to her husband, 29 December 1919 (effects £849).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Robert Leatham (1869-1939). </b>Eldest son of Robert Barclay (1843-1921) and his wife Elizabeth Ellen, daughter of Thomas Fowell Buxton of Easneye (Herts), born 30 March 1869&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">and baptised at Islington Presbyterian church, 11 December 1874</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. Educated at Rottingdean (Sussex), Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1886; BA 1889; MA 1893). Banker with Barclays Bank, 1890-1939 (</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Director, 1910-39); also Director of the Commercial Union Assurance Co.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">JP for Hertfordshire; DL and JP for Suffolk; High Sheriff of Suffolk, 1921. He was a Liberal in politics and stood unsuccessfully for Parliament at Stowmarket in 1910. He served in the First World War as an officer in the Norfolk Yeomanry (Capt., 1916; Maj., 1921), on staff of Quartermaster General at War Office, 1917-19; Secretary of Army Agricultural Committee, 1917-18. Chairman of London Chamber of Commerce, 1923-26; Suffolk Agricultural Association, 1933, and United Services Trustees; Treasurer of Student Christian Movement, Church Missionary Society, 1923-39 and Livingstone College. He was appointed OBE, 1918 and CBE, 1919 and awarded the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Jubilee Medal, 1935</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. He married 1st, 31 March 1898, Alice Eugenia (1869-1918), daughter of Horace Smith-Bosanquet of Broxbournebury (Herts) and 2nd, 4 March 1924 at Little Bredy (Dorset), Dorothy Rhoda (1881-1972), fifth daughter of Sir Robert Williams, 1st bt. of Bridehead (Dorset), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1) Ellen Rhoda Christian (k/a Kisty) Barclay (1925-2017), born 24 November 1925; served in Second World War with WRNS; educated at Somerville College, Oxford (matriculated 1946; BA 1949; MA 1952); lived latterly at Stanford-in-the-Vale (Berks); married, 18 December 1948, Hugh Creighton ARIBA (1919-88), architect and acoustician, son of Rev. Cuthbert Creighton of Shalbourne (Wilts) and had issue three sons and one daughter; died 16 June 2017; will proved 5 April 2018.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited the High Leigh and Higham estates from his father in 1921, but conveyed the former to the First Conference Estate Co. In 1906 he bought Gaston House, Little Hallingbury (Essex), which his widow sold in 1949; she lived latterly at Stanford-in-the-Vale (Berks).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 22 May 1939; his will was proved 28 July 1939 (estate £224,318). His first wife died 23 August 1918; her will was proved 16 January 1919 (estate £28,592). His widow died aged 91 on 25 October 1972; her will was proved 21 December 1972 (estate £50,064).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Rev. David Buxton (1876-1954). </b>Second&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">son of Robert Barclay (1843-1921) and his wife Elizabeth Ellen, daughter of Thomas Fowell Buxton of Easneye (Herts), born 25 December 1876 and baptised at Stanstead Abbots (Herts), 19 February 1877. E</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">ducated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1895; BA 1898; MA 1902). Ordained deacon, 1901 and priest, 1902. Vicar of Malton (Yorks), 1904-11; rector of Chippenham, 1911-18 and also a chaplain to the forces; vicar of Braintree (Essex), 1918-24 and rural dean, 1921-24; vicar of Hatfield Peverel (Essex), 1924-33; rector of Great Hallingbury (Essex), 1934-40; hon. canon of Chelmsford Cathedral, 1935-39; rural dean of Harlow, 1936-38. He was a freemason from 1919. He married, 20 July 1901 at St Paul, Onslow Sq,, Kensington (Middx), Laetitia Caroline Rowley (c.1876-1957), daughter of Rt. Rev. Rowley Hill DD, bishop of Sodor and Man, and had issue</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Theodore David Barclay (1906-81) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) John Alexander Barclay (1908-80), born at Malton, 18 October 1908; educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (MA 1930); an officer in Nigerian Education Service; served in Second World War with Nigerian forces (mentioned in despatches);&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">HM Inspector of Schools;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;lived at Moat House, Alvechurch (Worcs); married, 30 March 1946, Janet Evelyn Lucas (1911-99), daughter of Rev. Lionel Morrice Man and widow of Rev. George Alexander Kay (1907-44), and had issue two daughters; died at Cranbrook (Kent), 12 July 1980; will proved 10 October 1980 (estate £138,328);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Patience Elizabeth Barclay (1911-85), born 28 July and baptised at Chippenham, 15 September 1911; educated at London School of Medicine for Women (MB, BS, 1939); developed a specialism in paediatric medicine at Great Ormond St. Hospital, London, 1942-43; MRCP, 1945; served in Royal Army Medical Corps, 1945-46; in medical practice in Nairobi (Kenya), 1950-76; retired 1982; married, 28 July 1946 in Darjeeling (India), Arthur Davies, son of Christopher Davies of Halifax (Yorks WR) and had issue one son and one daughter and unofficially adopted another boy and girl; died 29 March 1985; will proved 29 May 1985 (estate under £40,000);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4)&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Robert Christopher Barclay (1916-2009), born 2 July 1916; educated at Canford School, Trinity College, Cambridge (MA, MB, BChir 1942) and St George's Hospital Medical School; surgeon (LRCP 1940; MRCS 1940; FRCS 1946); resident medical officer at Royal Cancer Hospital; registrar at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; consultant thoracic surgeon at Nottingham City Hospital; married 1st, 17 June 1947, Cecilia Lois Jane (1920-88), daughter of Bernard Jessop OBE of 45 Russell Sq., London, and had issue one son and one daughter; married 2nd, 1990, Gwendoline E. (1917-2008), daughter of Herbert Morrish and widow of Gilbert Snowie (1908-89); died aged 92 at Thurgarton (Notts), 2 January 2009.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived in retirement at Grove Cottage, Cromer (Norfk).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 17 January 1954 and was buried at Overstrand (Norfk); his will was proved 4 March 1954 (estate £46,087). His widow died 8 March 1957 and was also buried at Overstrand; her will was proved 17 May 1957 (estate £3,088).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jzA3EGGyf4o/XJT5EIlnHhI/AAAAAAAAMKM/NzGxIZ2XayMjs1pW933RRWAh-ha5lLsGgCLcBGAs/s1600/Barclay%252C%2BTheodore%2BDavid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="578" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jzA3EGGyf4o/XJT5EIlnHhI/AAAAAAAAMKM/NzGxIZ2XayMjs1pW933RRWAh-ha5lLsGgCLcBGAs/s200/Barclay%252C%2BTheodore%2BDavid.jpg" width="144" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Theodore David Barclay (1906-81)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Theodore David (1906-81). </b>Eldest son of Rev. David Buxton Barclay (1876-1954) and his wife Laetitia Caroline Rowley, daughter of Rt. Rev. Rowley Hill, bishop of Sodor &amp; Man, born 6 September 1906. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA). Banker with Barclays Bank, 1927-77 (Local Director, 1934; director of the bank, 1948-77); Director of Sun Alliance Insurance Ltd., 1948-77 (Chairman, 1956-68); Director of British Linen Bank, 1951-70; Director of Bank of Scotland, 1970-77</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He married, 4 April 1934, Anne Millard (1912-96), daughter of Thomas William Bennett of Hatfield (Herts), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Susannah Elizabeth Barclay (b. 1940), born 17 December 1940; married, 2 April 1966, Michael Arbuthnot L. Young (b. 1930), and had issue one son and one daughter;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) David William Barclay (b. 1942) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) James Christopher Barclay (b. 1945), born 7 July 1945; educated at Harrow; an officer in King's Royal Hussars, 1964-67; director of Cater Allen Holdings plc, 1981-98 (Chairman, 1985-98), M&amp;G Equity Investment Trust plc, 1996-2011 (Chairman, 1998-2011), Thomas Agnew &amp; Sons, 1998-2013; New Fulcrum Investment Trust plc, 1999-2006; Rathbone Brothers plc, 2003-10 and other companies; Chairman of London Discount Market Assoc., 1988-90; director of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">UK Debt Management Office, 2000-05;&nbsp; lived at Rivers Hall, Waldringfield (Suffk);&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, Apr-Jun 1974, Rolleen Anne (b. 1947), daughter of Lt-Col. Arthur Forbes and had issue one son and one daughter.&nbsp;</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He inherited the Higham estate in Suffolk from his uncle in 1939 and lived at Severnhill Farm and later Desnage Lodge, Higham.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 30 October 1981; his will was proved 7 May 1982 (estate £287,939). His widow died 29 September 1996; her will was proved 25 February 1997.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, David William (b. 1942). </b>Elder son of Theodore David Barclay (1906-81) and his wife Anne Millard, daughter of Thomas William Bennett of Hatfield (Herts), born 29 November 1942. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. A director of Suffolk Agricultural Association, 1993-2008, Didlington Fisheries Ltd., 1998-2009, Trinity Park Events Ltd., 2002-08, Suffolk Community Foundation, 2005-13 and St Nicholas Hospice, Suffolk, 2008-16. He married, 4 May 1968, Celia Helen (b. 1944), daughter of Hugh William Cairns, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Robin David Barclay (b. 1969), born 25 July 1969; married, 1997 (div.), Juliet Emma, daughter of Christopher Allanson, and had issue two sons and two daughters;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Katharine Elizabeth Barclay (b. 1971).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited the Higham estate in Suffolk from his father in 1981 and lives at Desnage Lodge.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Now living.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">---</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Ford (1795-1859). </b>Third&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">son of Robert Barclay (1758-1816) and his wife Ann, daughter of Isaac Ford of Manchester, born at Clapham, 3 August 1795. Stockbroker. He&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, 27 October 1824 at Croydon Quaker Meeting, Esther (1799-1889), daughter of William Foster Reynolds of Carshalton House (Surrey), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Henry Ford Barclay (1826-91) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Mary Anna Barclay (1828-1916), born 3 December 1828; died unmarried, 17 April 1916; will proved 25 May 1916 (estate £22,739);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Hugh Reynolds Barclay (1831-33), born 3 June 1831; died young, 23 June and was buried at Brighton, 30 June 1833;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Charles Reynolds Barclay (1833-82), born 4 November 1833; educated at Brighton; partner in the Briton Ferry Copper Company; died unmarried, 11 December 1882; administration of goods granted to his elder brother, 16 January 1883 (effects £6,662);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Frederick John Barclay (1839-79), born 31 October 1839; died unmarried, 20 February 1879; administration of his goods granted in turn to his two brothers, May 1879 and May 1889 (effects £3,689).&nbsp;</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He lived at Tooting (Surrey) and later at Forest Place, Walthamstow.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 20 March 1859; his will was proved 18 June 1859 (effects under £12,000). His widow died 7 March 1889; her will was proved 23 May 1889 (effects £13,924).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Henry Ford (1826-91). </b>Eldest son of Ford Barclay (1795-1859) of Walthamstow and his wife Esther, daughter of William Foster Reynolds of Carshalton House (Surrey), born 9 September 1826. Educated at Eton. Partner in Gurney &amp; Co., bankers. JP and DL for Essex and chair of Becontree petty sessions for many years; High Sheriff of Essex, 1886. A Quaker in religion, he was noted for his charitable donations and diverse philanthropic interests. He married 1st, 13 April 1848, Richenda Louisa (1827-88), youngest daughter of Samuel Gurney of Ham House, Upton (Essex) and 2nd, 10 June 1890 at St Peter, Cranley Gardens, Kensington (Middx), (Hannah) Edith (1854-1930), youngest daughter of Abel Chapman of Woodford (Essex), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Edith Richenda Barclay (1849-1910), born 24 April 1849 and baptised into Church of England at Cromer, 2 September 1869; married, 26 July 1872, Francis Maltby Bland (1845-1940) of Inglethorpe Manor, Wisbech (Cambs) and had issue three sons and two daughters; died 2 December 1910 and was buried at Copdock (Suffk);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Hugh Gurney Barclay (1851-1936) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.3) Sarah Adelaide Barclay (1853-1941), born 3 March 1853; married, 5 October 1876, Charles Alfred Leatham (1849-1934) of Woodford (Essex) and had issue one son and three daughters; lived at Windmill Lodge, Eastbourne (Sussex); died 6 September 1941; will proved 12 January 1942 (estate £29,981);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.4) Alice Esther Barclay (1854-67), born 27 September 1854; died young, 20 June 1867;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.5) Anna Maud Barclay (1858-91), born 26 March 1858; patient at Earlswood Asylum (Surrey), classified as an imbecile, 1865-91; died 21 April, and was buried at Reigate (Surrey), 25 April 1891;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.6) Henry Ford Gurney Barclay (1860-1934), born 5 October 1860; missionary in Japan; married Chyo, daughter of Eishi Tsukamoto (1885-1919) of Ono (Japan), and had issue one son; died 28 April 1934; will proved 10 August 1934 (estate £9,207);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.7) Sir George Head Barclay (1862-1921), kt., born 23 March 1862; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1881); a member of HM diplomatic service, 1886-1919; served in Washington (USA), Rome (Italy), Madrid (Spain), Constantinople (Turkey), Tokyo (Japan) before 1908 and then as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Teheran (Iran), 1908-12 and at Bucharest, 1912-19; appointed CMG, 1898, CVO 1906, KCMG 1908 and KCSI 1913; married, 24 October 1891 (div. 1920) Beatrix Mary Jay, daughter of Henry G. Chapman of New York (USA), and had issue one daughter; died 26 January 1921; will proved 4 March 1921 (estate £12,941);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.8) Edmund de Gournay Barclay (b. &amp; d. 1864), born 21 February 1864; died in infancy, Jul-Sept 1864;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.9) Capt. Cameron Barclay (1865-1954), born 24 November 1865; educated at Eton, Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1885; rowing blue), and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; an officer in the 10th Hussars (Capt., 1892; retired 1902); served again, 1915-19 (Maj.; mentioned in despatches); farmer </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">at&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #181a1c;">South Gate, Joise River (South Africa);&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, 8 October 1892 (div. 1916), Hon. Charlotte Ernestine de la Poer Horsley-Beresford (1871-1923), youngest daughter of William Robert John Horsley-Beresford, 3rd Baron Decies, and had issue one daughter; died at East London (South Africa), 3 August 1954; will proved 9 December 1954 (estate £20,391);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.10) Charles Theodore Barclay (1867-1921) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.11) Marion Alice de Gournay Barclay (1868-1961), born 12 October 1868; married, 2 January 1890 at Woodford, the Hon. and Rt. Hon. Sir Lancelot Douglas Carnegie GCVO KCMG (1861-1933), diplomat, second son of James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk, and had issue one son and two daughters; died 23 August 1961; will proved 6 March 1962 (estate £4,730).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at (and perhaps built) Monkhams, Woodford (Essex), which seems to have been sold after his death.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 12 November 1891; his will was proved 4 January 1892 (effects £319,747). His first wife died 12 February 1888. His widow died 31 July 1930; her will was proved 13 September 1930 (estate £31,040).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Hugh Gurney (1851-1936). </b>Eldest son of Henry Ford Barclay (1826-91) and his first wife, Richenda Louisa, youngest daughter of Samuel Gurney of Upton (Essex), born 5 July 1851 and baptised into Church of England at Cromer, 2 September 1869. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1870; BA 1874; MA 1878).&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Entered the family banking business of Gurney, Birkbeck, Barclay and Buxton, 1875; subsequently partner, and after it became a limited company in 1896, a director of the Bank (Vice-Chairman, 1909-16). </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">An officer in the Norfolk Yeomanry (Lt-Col.), he served in the First World War. JP for Norfolk and Norwich; High Sheriff of Norfolk, 1905-06. Appointed MVO, 1909. He f</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">ormed a collection of wild animals at Colney Park and was interested in ornithology; rented the Farne Islands to protect the wild birds there. In 1888-89 he employed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Cavell">Edith Cavell</a> as a governess for his children.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He married, 16 April 1880 at St Stephen, Kensington (Middx), Evelyn Louisa (1862-99), daughter of Sir Stuart Saunders Hogg, kt., and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Terence Henry Ford Barclay (1882-1911), born 2 November 1882 and baptised at Thorpe, 14 January 1883; educated at Eton; an officer in the Scots Guards (2nd Lt., 1903; Lt.); died of blood poisoning after being attacked by one of the family's pet lions, 27 December 1911;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Ursula Mary Barclay (1884-1915), born 21 January and baptised 16 March 1884; married, 7 October 1908, Robert Arthur Hardcastle Collier (1875-1964), 3rd Baron Monkswell (who m2, 22 January 1925, Katherine Edith (d. 1985), daughter of William Shaw Harriss Gastrell of Rockbeare Grange (Devon)), but had no issue; died 29 January 1915;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Evelyn Hugh Barclay (1886-1956) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Phyllis Dorothy Barclay (1887-1976), born 28 September 1887; married 1st, 16 April 1914, Capt. Harry Cecil Johnson DSO (1877-1915), son of Capt. Robert Henry Johnson, and had issue one son; married 2nd, 10 July 1918 at St Mary, Bryanston Sq., London, Maj. Ivor Buxton DSO (1884-1969) of Shelley Hall (Suffk), third son of Geoffrey Fowell Buxton of Easneye (Herts), and had further issue two daughters; died 27 October 1976; will proved 14 December 1976 (estate £42,464);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Richenda Louisa Barclay (1889-1956), born 1889; married 1st, 30 January 1912 at Holy Trinity, Chelsea (Middx), Capt. Horace John Flower (d. 1918), and had issue; married 2nd, Jan-Mar 1926, Major John Elgee Gunning, son of W.A. Gunning of Loy Hill (Co. Tyrone); died 16 November 1956; administration of goods granted 3 May 1956 (effects £160);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Cecil Lorna Barclay (1891-1976), born 2 February and baptised at Earlham, 8 March 1891; married 1st, 10 August 1915, Brig-Gen. Malise Graham DSO (1884-1929), third son of Sir Reginald Henry Graham, 8th bt., of Norton Conyers (Yorks) and had issue; married 2nd, 5 June 1935, Capt. Eric William Edward Fellowes RN (1887-1976), 3rd Baron Ailwyn, of Sweffling Grange, Saxmundham (Suffk), but had no issue; died 12 July 1976; will proved 14 September 1976 (estate £157,017);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) David Stuart Barclay (1897-1917), born 2 February and baptised at Thorpe, 14 February 1897; an officer in the Scots Guards (2nd Lt., 1914; wounded 1916); died of wounds received in action, 24 April 1917; will proved 23 May 1917 (effects £248);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(8) Rosamund Alice Barclay (1899-1982), born Oct-Dec 1899; married, 1 July 1927, Christopher Robert Birkbeck OBE JP (1889-1973) of Rippon Hall, Norwich, younger son of Henry Birkbeck of Westacre (Norfk), and had issue; died 19 September 1982; will proved 25 January 1983 (estate £69,044).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He leased Colney Hall (Norfk) from 1887 and bought the freehold in 1900.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 9 March 1936 and was buried at Colney; his will was proved 9 July 1936 (estate £513,356). His wife died 22 October 1899.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Evelyn Hugh (1885-1956). </b>Second, but eldest surviving, son of Hugh Gurney Barclay (1851-1936) and his wife Evelyn Louisa, daughter of Sir Stuart Hogg, bt., born 7 September and baptised at Thorpe by Norwich (Norfk), 11 October 1885. Educated at Eton. An officer in the Norfolk Yeomanry (2nd Lt., 1905) and in the Scots Guards (Lt., 1915; Capt.). He was a Vice-President of Norwich City Football Club and in 1936 paid for a covered stand to be erected at their Carrow Road ground, Norwich. He married, 3 July 1917 at St George, Hanover Square, London, Hon. Phyllis Patty Crossley MBE JP (1890-1982), elder daughter of Sir Savile Brinton Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Ione Jean Barclay (1918-2005), born 19 December 1918; married, 27 April 1940 (div. 1963), Sir Harold Felix Cassel&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1916-2001)</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, 3rd bt., judge (who m2, Eileen Smedley), third son of Rt. Hon. Sir Felix Cassel, 1st bt., and had issue three sons and one daughter; lived at Much Hadham (Herts); died 27 March 2005; will proved 8 August 2005;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Ursula (k/a Ursie) Evelyn Barclay (1921-2004), born 26 January 1921; served in Second World War with ATS; married, 18 October 1947, Brig. David Lanyon Lloyd Owen DSO OBE MC (1917-2001), only son of Capt. R.C. Lloyd Owen OBE RN of Fareham (Hants), and had issue three sons; died 10 January 2004; will proved 4 August 2004;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Sonia Barclay (1923-73), born 8 December 1923; married 1st, 2 April 1949, Herbert Alfred Brittain OBE MCh FRCS (1904-54) of Witton House, Norwich, elder son of J.W. Brittain of Kilronan, Donnybrook, Dublin, and had issue one daughter; married 2nd, Oct-Dec 1955, Donald L. Smith, and had further issue one daughter; died 26 December 1973; administration of goods granted 18 April 1974 (estate £25,009).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Colney Hall, Norwich from his father in 1936. His widow lived at Herringfleet Hall nr. Lowestoft (Suffk) in 1965.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 4 September 1956; his will was proved 14 December 1956 (estate £179,072). His widow died at Glebe House, Somerleyton, 25 December 1982; her will was proved 17 March 1983 (estate £60,370).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Charles Theodore (1867-1921). </b>Fifth son of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Henry Ford Barclay (1826-91) and his first wife, Richenda Louisa, youngest daughter of Samuel Gurney of Upton (Essex), born 17 July 1867. Educated at Cheam, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1886; rowing blue, 1887).</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> Stockbroker; senior partner in Shephards and Co., London;&nbsp;a director of the City Equitable Fire insurance Co. Ltd. (from 1916), and of the Gresham House Estate Company. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He married, 3 October 1893, Josephine Lister (1870-1950), fifth daughter of Smith Harrison of Elmhurst, South Woodford (Essex), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Margaret Emily Barclay (1894-1967), born 30 June 1894; married, 26 April 1916, Sir William Henry Dyke Acland (1888-1970), 3rd bt. MC AFC, of Barnes Wood, Welwyn (Herts) and had issue four daughters; died 21 May 1967; will proved 3 July 1967 (estate £90,449);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Christopher Gurney Barclay (1897-1962) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Juliet Richenda Barclay (1901-81), born 3 October 1901; married 18 July 1923, John Kidston Swire (1893-1983) of Hubbards Hall, Harlow (Essex), chairman of Swire Group, 1946-66, son of John Swire, and had issue two sons and two daughters; died 18 June 1981; will proved 16 September 1981 (estate £320,873);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Anthony Lister Barclay (1903-88), born 23 November 1903; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; investment banker; served in Second World War with Royal Artillery; lived at Little Rissington House (Glos); married, 6 July 1931, Elizabeth Kathryn (1905-74), elder daughter of Hugh Wyatt Bryson of Los Angeles, California (USA), and had issue three daughters; died 29 October 1988; will proved 9 February 1989 (estate £680,118);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Theodora Mary Barclay (1906-90), born 20 June 1906; died unmarried, 20 September 1990 and was buried at Bayford (Herts); will proved 11 September 1990 (estate £864,015).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>After his marriage he lived at Leahoe, Hertford. He leased Fanshaws, Hertford from 1909.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 30 March 1921; his will was proved 24 May 1921 (estate £124,689). His widow died 2 May 1950; her will was proved 28 July 1950 (estate £7,738).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Christopher Gurney (1897-1962). </b>Elder son of Charles Theodore Barclay (1867-1921) and his wife Josephine Lister, fifth daughter of Smith Harrison of Elmhurst, South Woodford (Essex), born 6 April 1897. Educated at Eton. An officer in the Coldstream Guards during the First and Second World Wars (2nd Lt., 1915; Lt., 1916; A/Capt.; wounded; returned to regiment as Lt., 1939; Capt., 1941; retired as hon. Maj., 1945); awarded MC, 1915. Stockbroker in London from 1920. He married, 16 August 1950, (Frances Mary) Phyllis (b. 1890), daughter of Maj-Gen. Howard Poett and widow of Philip Henry R. Jephson and Ralph Edward Lambton, but had no issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He continued the lease of Fanshaws, Hertford after his father's death; the lease was given up in 1963.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 24 June 1962 and was buried at Bayford (Herts); his will was proved 27 July 1962 (estate £205,882). His widow was living in 1965; her date of death has not been traced.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay of Brent Pelham Hall</b></span></h3><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pLfXwkP6mJg/XJEiDlYw-qI/AAAAAAAAMJY/dIyPDBVftDAOW1p48qJR0BCI_d5DSwIbgCLcBGAs/s1600/Barclay%252C%2BEdward%2BExton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="263" data-original-width="214" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pLfXwkP6mJg/XJEiDlYw-qI/AAAAAAAAMJY/dIyPDBVftDAOW1p48qJR0BCI_d5DSwIbgCLcBGAs/s200/Barclay%252C%2BEdward%2BExton.jpg" width="162" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edward Exton Barclay (1860-1948)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Edward Exton (1860-1948). </b>Second son of Joseph Gurney Barclay (1816-98) and his second wife, Margaret, daughter of William Exton of Hitchin (Herts), born 16 February 1860. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (matriculated 1878; BA 1882; MA 1885). A partner in Barclays Bank, 1886-96, when he retired. JP for Hertfordshire. Master of the North Norfolk Harriers, 1878-96 and Puckeridge Foxhounds, 1896-1948 (joint-master with his son from 1910); his devotion to hunting was legendary and he was regarded as one of 'grand old men' of the sporting world. He married, 1st, 31 July 1883 at the Friends Meeting House, Leytonstone (Essex), Elizabeth Mary (c.1859-1927), eldest daughter of William Fowler MP, of Grosvenor Sq., London, and 2nd, 1 October 1927,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">the elder sister of his son's wife,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Elizabeth Mary (c.1884-1929), daughter&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">of Marlborough Pryor, of Weston Park, Herts and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">widow of Henry Fordham of Alconbury (Hunts), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Katharine Joan Barclay (1884-1980), born 12 August 1884 and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">baptised at Thorpe St. Andrew (Norfk), 22 July 1895</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">; JP for Hertfordshire (to 1960); married, 12 October 1910 at Brent Pelham, Capt. Edward Charles Dimsdale (1883-1915), son of Sir Charles Robert Southwell Dimsdale, 7th bt., and had issue one son; died aged 95 on 27 January 1980; will proved 11 April 1980 (estate £11,878).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Maj. Maurice Edward Barclay (1886-1962) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.3) Maj. Geoffrey William Barclay (1891-1916), born 4 December 1891 and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">baptised at Thorpe St. Andrew (Norfk), 22 July 1895</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">; educated at Ludgrove School, Eton (where he was Master of the Eton College hunt) and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (where he was Master of Trinity Foot Beagles); an officer in the Rifle Brigade from 1912 (2nd Lt., 1912; severely wounded, mentioned in despatches, and awarded MC, 1915; Maj. commanding 1st battn); unmarried when he was killed in action at Ypres, 28 July 1916; will proved 11 September 1916 (estate £583).</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He inherited Brent Pelham Hall from his father in 1898.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 4 March 1948; his will was proved 22 July 1948 (estate £216,513). His first wife died 5 June 1927 and was buried at Brent Pelham. His second wife died 3 May 1929; administration of her goods was granted 13 July 1929 (estate £18,032).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_bMjyOXT6mg/XJEhmg64H7I/AAAAAAAAMJQ/t139NbhfSBolhYzc3TLCe9PHLu2LZqKaACLcBGAs/s1600/Barclay%252C%2BMaurice%2BEdward.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="616" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_bMjyOXT6mg/XJEhmg64H7I/AAAAAAAAMJQ/t139NbhfSBolhYzc3TLCe9PHLu2LZqKaACLcBGAs/s200/Barclay%252C%2BMaurice%2BEdward.jpg" width="153" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maj. M.E. Barclay (1886-1962)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Maj. Maurice Edward (1886-1962). </b>Elder son of Edward Exton Barclay (1860-1948) and his first wife, Elizabeth Mary, eldest daughter of William Fowler MP of Grosvenor Square, London, born 10 September 1886 and baptised at Thorpe St. Andrew (Norfk), 22 July 1895. Educated at Ludgrove School, Eton, where he was noted as an athlete, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (matriculated 1905; BA 1908; President of the Athenaeum Club, 1907). An officer in the Norfolk Imperial Yeomanry (2nd Lt., 1905; Lt., 1908; Capt., 1914; Maj. by 1916), who served in First World War, 1914-19 (mentioned in despatches). Acted as land agent to his father until he inherited the Brent Pelham estate; Chairman of Hertfordshire War (later County) Agricultural Executive Committee, 1941-58;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">JP (from 1933) and DL for Hertfordshire.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp; A</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">warded CBE, 1949 and the Egyptian Order of the Nile</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. Master of the Cambridge University Beagles, c.1907; Joint Master of Puckeridge Foxhounds (with his father) from 1910. He married, 30 August 1916 at Weston (Herts), Margaret Eleanor (1887-1969), daughter of Marlborough Robert Pryor of Weston Park, nr. Stevenage (Herts), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Charles Geoffrey Edward Barclay (1919-2002) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Pamela Mary Barclay (1921-2002), born 14 February 1921; married, 14 January 1949, Rev. Lawrence Alexander Durdin Robertson (1920-94) of Huntington Castle (Co. Carlow), eldest son of Manning Robertson of Huntington Castle, and had issue one son; died 28 November 2002 and was buried at Radnage (Bucks); will proved 24 November 2003;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) William Maurice Barclay (1924-44), born 5 November 1924; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge; served in Second World War as a midshipman with Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; died unmarried when his ship, HMS Mahratta, was torpedoed, 25 February 1944; administration of his goods granted to his father, 11 August 1944 (estate £168).</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He lived at Beeches Manor (badly damaged by fire in 1935) until he inherited Brent Pelham Hall from his father in 1948.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 9 November 1962; his will was proved 8 January 1963 (estate £42,847). His widow died 23 August 1969; her will was proved 21 November 1969 (estate £4,519).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Capt. Charles Geoffrey Edward (1919-2002). </b>Elder and only surviving son of Maurice Edward Barclay (1886-1962) and his wife Margaret Eleanor, daughter of Marlborough Robert Pryor of Weston Park, Stevenage (Herts), born 13 August 1919. Educated at Eton, Magdalene College, Cambridge and Christchurch, Oxford. Served in Second World War as an officer in the army (2nd Lt., 1940; Capt., 1944; mentioned in despatches; twice wounded). Subsequently farmer and landowner; member of council of Royal Agricultural Society of England. High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, 1990-91. As a young man, he had the (possibly unique?) record of being Master of the Trinity Foot Beagles at Cambridge and of the Christchurch Beagles at Oxford, and was later joint Master of the Puckeridge (later Puckeridge &amp; Thurlow and then Puckeridge) Hunt, 1947-2002. He married 1st, 14 June 1947, Laura Mary (1920-72), eldest daughter of Col. Thomas Slingsby MC of Danceys, Clavering (Essex), and 2nd, May 1985, (Kathleen) Anne (b. 1927), daughter of Edward Foster and formerly wife of Charles G. Payne, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Diana Margaret Barclay (b. 1949), born 10 March 1949; a master of the Puckeridge Hunt since 1987;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, 1973, Jonathan C. Pyper, and had issue two sons;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Maj. Thomas Patrick Edward Barclay (b. 1951), born 16 January 1951; an officer in the army (2nd Lt., 1974; Maj.); farmer and landowner at Brent Pelham; a master of the Puckeridge Hunt; married Elizabeth A. [surname unknown];</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.3) Robert Charles William Barclay (b. 1957), born 26 December 1957; farmer at Brent Pelham; a master of the Puckeridge Hunt; married, November 1985, Susan H. Ralli (b. 1963), and had issue one son and one daughter;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.4) Maurice James Barclay (b. 1959), born 19 August 1959; farmer at Stixwould (Lincs); Master of Essex &amp; Suffolk Hunt, 1983-87; Fitzwilliam (Milton) Hunt, 1987-99; Cottesmore Hunt, 1999-2002; South Wold Hunt 2002-03 and Grove &amp; Rufford Hunt, 2010-12; chairman of This is Hunting UK; author of <i>My Hunting England</i>&nbsp;(2015); married, April 1986, Lucy M.H. Taylor (b. 1962) and had issue two sons.</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He inherited Brent Pelham Hall from his father in 1962. It was sold following his death, but the estate remains in the possession of the family.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 5 July 2002; his will was proved 8 April 2003. His first wife died 19 December 1972; her will was proved 21 February 1973 (estate £2,245). His widow was living in 2017.</span><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay of Hanworth Hall</b></span></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Henry Albert (1858-1947). </b>Elder&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">son of Joseph Gurney Barclay (1816-98) and his second wife, Margaret, daughter of William Exton of Hitchin (Herts), born 19 April 1858 and baptised as an adult at Gatton (Surrey), 9 February 1881. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (matriculated 1877). JP and DL for Norfolk. Raised King's Own Royal Regiment of Norfolk Imperial Yeomanry, 1900 and served as its Col. and commanding officer until retiring in 1913. ADC to King Edward VII and King George V, 1906-10. Appointed MVO 1901 and CVO, 1906; and Commander of the Royal Order of St. Olaf (Norway). He married 1st, 21 April 1881, Marion Louisa (c.1858-1938), only daughter of Francis Hoare of The Hill, Hampstead (Middx) and Cromer (Norfk), banker, and 2nd, 22 October 1938, Mrs. Isobelle Antoinette Hawkins (1903-93) of Great Bookham (Surrey), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Rev. Humphrey Gordon Barclay (1882-1955) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Lt-Col. Joseph Francis Barclay (1883-1968), born 6 November and baptised at Bletchingley, 23 December 1883; educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; an officer in Norfolk Yeomanry (Lt-Col.); director of firm of millers and corn merchants; JP and DL for Norfolk; lived at Home Farm, Alby (Norfk); married, 15 February 1912 at Holy Trinity, Chelsea (Middx), Constance (1886-1970), daughter of Arthur Flower of Lowndes Sq., London, and had issue four sons; died 18 February 1968; will proved 21 August 1968 (estate £21,672);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.3) Eugenia Barclay (1885-1973), born 28 February 1885; awarded BEM, 1945; married, May 1916, Lt-Col. Gerald Bullard (1875-1932) of Hill Farm, Gressenhall (Norfk), son of Sir Harry Bullard of Hellardon, Norwich (Norfk), and had issue one son and one daughter; died 25 February 1973; will proved 14 September 1973 (estate £114,866);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.4) Margaret Barclay (1887-1972), born 19 February and baptised at Bletchingley, 20 March 1887; married, 25 August 1938, Lt-Col. Ronald Forbes Meiklejohn DSO (1876-1949), but had no issue; died 1 February 1972; will proved 17 April 1972 (estate £51,871).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Underhills, Bletchingley (Surrey) until his father's trustees bought Hanworth Hall for him in 1900.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 19 August 1947; his will was proved 15 November 1947 (estate £57,927). His first wife died 4 July 1938. His widow died 30 November 1993 and was buried at Navestock (Essex); her will was proved 15 March 1994 (estate £165,048).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Rev. Humphrey Gordon (1882-1955). </b>Elder son of Col. Henry Albert Barclay (1858-1947) of Hanworth Hall, and his first wife, Marion Louisa, only daughter of Francis Hoare of The Hill, Hampstead (Middx) and Cromer (Norfk), born at Bletchingley (Surrey), 23 May and baptised at Christ Church, Hampstead, 9 July 1882. Educated at Hazlewood School, Eton, Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Lichfield Theological College. Ordained deacon, 1905 and priest, 1906. Chaplain of Mission to Seamen, London, 1905-14; army chaplain, 1914-18 (mentioned in despatches three times; awarded MC 1918; hon. Capt., 1921); rector of</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> Carleton Forehoe and Crownthorpe (Norfk), 1919-21; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">rector of Southrepps (Norfk), 1921-26; rector of Tittleshall (Norfk), 1926-39; chaplain to King George VI, 1940-52 and Queen Elizabeth II, 1952-55; Chaplain of Royal Chapel, Windsor Great Park, 1939-46; rector of Southrepps again, 1946-55. He married, 18 October 1906 at Cromer (Norfk), Beatrice Evermar (1885-1975), second daughter of Benjamin Bond-Cabbell of Cromer Hall (Norfk), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Hope Marian Barclay (1909-94), born in Calcutta, 15 July and baptised 7 September 1909; married, 17 June 1930, Brig. Keith Wilson Hervey DSO DL (1898-1973) of The Old Vicarage, Sporle (Norfk), son of Matthew Wilson Hervey of East Bilney Hall (Norfk), and had issue two daughters; died 17 February 1994; will proved 14 June 1994 (estate £151,184);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Ruth Evelyn Barclay (1911-2008), born 8 May 1911; married, 29 September 1937, Richard Peter Heywood&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1904-71)&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">of Manor Farm, Ingoldisthorpe (Norfk), son of Richard Heywood of Pentney House (Norfk), and had issue one son and two daughters;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">died aged 97 on 18 December 2008; will proved 9 March 2009;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Michael Henry Barclay (1913-2002) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Elizabeth Margaret Barclay (1916-92), born 11 April 1916; married 1st, 15 September 1939, Norman Lewis Philips (1916-40), son of Brig-Gen. Lewis Francis Philips CB CMG CBE DSO, and had issue one son (who died in infancy); married 2nd, 5 February 1944, Hon. Brian Gordon Rootes (1919-71) of Flaunden House (Herts), younger son of William Edward Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes, and had further issue one son; died 1992;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5)&nbsp;Timothy Humphrey Barclay (1923-99), born 18 June 1923; educated at Stowe; served in Second World War in Royal Navy, 1940-46; farmer at Middleton Tower near Kings Lynn (Norfk); Master and Huntsman of West Norfolk Hunt, 1958-after 1962; High Sheriff of Norfolk, 1983-84; director of Fakenham Racecourse, 1991-99; married, 23 June 1947, June (b. 1923), second daughter of Thomas Ramsden of Middleton Tower, Kings Lynn (Norfk), and had issue one son; died 30 November 1999; will proved 28 February 2000.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived latterly at Thurgarton Lodge, Aldborough (Norfk.)</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 2 October 1955 and was buried at Hanworth; his will was proved 30 January 1956 (estate £22,556). His widow died 13 October 1975; her will was proved 13 August 1976 (estate £20,316).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Maj.&nbsp;</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">(Henry)&nbsp;</b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Michael</b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">&nbsp;</b><b style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">(1913-2002). </b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Elder twin son of Rev. Humphrey Gordon Barclay (1882-1955) and his wife Beatrice Evermar, second daughter of Benjamin Bond-Cabbell of Cromer Hall (Norfk), born 29 November 1913. Educated at Stowe. He served in the Second World War as an officer in the Norfolk Yeomanry (Maj.) and Trans-Jordan Frontier Force. He married 1st, 5 May 1936 at St James, Piccadilly, Westminster (Middx), (div. 1942), Vivienne Hamilton, daughter of Cecil Parker of Walton Hall (Lancs), and 2nd, 29 June 1946 (div. 1968), Pamela Catherine Mabell (1915-72), daughter of Hon. Edward James Kay-Shuttleworth, formerly wife of William Keith Rous (1907-83), 5th Earl of Stradbroke, and widow of Maj. the Hon. Sir Thomas William Assheton Frankland, 11th bt., and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Michael Humphrey Barclay (b. 1938) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Daniel Henry Barclay (1941-74), born 7 June 1941; married, Jan-Mar 1965, Ann Mary (who m2, 25 September 1975, Charles Geoffrey Nicholas Kay-Shuttleworth KG (b. 1948), 5th Baron Shuttleworth, and had issue three sons), daughter of Maj. James Dunbar Whatman of Shamley Green (Surrey); died 15 January 1974; administration of goods granted 22 April 1977 (estate £6,899);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1) Benjamin Barclay (b. &amp; d. 1947), born 18 October 1947; died in infancy, 25 October 1947.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Hanworth Hall from his grandfather in 1947.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 8 November 2002; his will was proved 6 March 2003. His first wife subsequently married 2nd, Jul-Sept. 1945, John Pearson and lived in Canada. His second wife married 4th, Maj. Robert Hugh Pardoe (1914-75) and died 15 September 1972; her will was proved 15 May 1973 (estate £11,226).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Michael Humphrey (b. 1938). </b>Elder son of Michael Henry Barclay (1913-2002) and his first wife, Vivienne Hamilton, daughter of Cecil Parker, born 23 August 1938. Educated at Eton and RMC Sandhurst. As a young man he worked as a docker in New Zealand, where he met his future wife. He married, 30 September 1961 at Greatford (Lincs), Katharine Agnes Florence (b. 1939), only daughter of Harry Lyttelton Dowsett of Greatford Hall, nr. Stamford (Lincs), shipowner and industrialist, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Humphrey S.C. Barclay (b. 1962), born 25 August 1962;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Rupert H.L. Barclay (b. 1965), born August 1965; lived at Meadow Farm, Hanworth.</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He lived at Home Farm, Somerleyton until he inherited Hanworth Hall from his father in 2002.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Now living.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sources</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Burke's Landed Gentry</i>, 1965, pp. 40-43; A. Young, <i>The farmer's tour through the east of England</i>, 1771, vol. 2, p. 241; R. Clutterbuck, <i>The history and antiquities of the county of Hertford</i>, 1827, vol. 3, p. 231;&nbsp;<i>VCH Hertfordshire</i>, vol. 3, 1912, p. 358; vol. 4, 1914, pp. 92-96; <i>VCH Essex</i>, vol. 6, 1973, pp. 184-97 and<i>&nbsp;</i>vol. 8, 1983, pp. 124-31; J.T. Smith, <i>Hertfordshire houses: selective inventory</i>, 1993, pp. 41-43; Sir N. Pevsner &amp; B. Wilson, <i>The buildings of England: Norfolk - Norwich and the north-east</i>, 2nd edn., 1997, p. 538; R. Hewlings, 'Youngsbury', <i>Georgian Group Journal</i>, 1999, pp. 107-15; P.M. Hunneyball, <i>Architecture and image-building in 17th century Hertfordshire</i>, 2004, pp. 106-07, 126-28; H. Leiper, 'Mr Lancelot Brown and his Hertfordshire clients', <i>Hertfordshire Garden History II</i>, 2012, pp. 92-120; S. Bate, R. Savage &amp; T. Williamson (eds), <i>Humphry Repton in Norfolk</i>, 2018, pp. 45-49; K. Feluś, <i>Youngsbury, Hertfordshire: appraisal of the historic designed landscape</i>, 2018;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">J. Bettley, Sir N. Pevsner &amp; B. Cherry, <i>The buildings of England: Hertfordshire</i>, 3rd edn., 2019, pp. 148-49; 576;&nbsp;</span><a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001005" style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001005</a><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Location of archives</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Barclay family of Brent Pelham: </i>deeds and estate papers, 1659-1956 [Hertfordshire Archives &amp; Local Studies, D/EBc and Acc. 3398]; family papers, 1810-1921 [Essex Record Office, D/DU 2153]</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Barclay, David (1729-1809): </i>personal and business correspondence and papers, c.1769-1801 [Norfolk Record Office, RQG/534-49]</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Barclays plc and predecessor companies</i>: records, 1567-21st century [<a href="https://www.archive.barclays.com/">Barclays Group Archives</a>].</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Coat of arms</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Azure, a chevron ermine between in chief three crosses patée in fesse argent and in base a dove also argent beaked and membered gules and in the beak a sprig of olive proper.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b> <br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can you help?</span></b></h4><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can anyone identify the houses which the family occupied at Bush Hill, Edmonton; Tooting; or Walthamstow in the 18th and 19th centuries, and/or provide illustrations of them? The house at Walthamstow may have been one of a row of properties known as Forest Place.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I should be most grateful if anyone can provide photographs or portraits of people whose names appear in bold above, and who are not already illustrated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Revision and acknowledgements</span></b></h4><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This post was first published 30 March 2019. I am most grateful for the assistance of Dr. Kate Feluś with my account of Youngsbury.</span><br /><br /></div></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-44978464804667294922019-03-15T12:06:00.004+00:002019-03-15T12:09:06.041+00:00(368) Barclay of Bury Hill and Eastwick Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0Jh2FazmD4I/XIo9GqGr5FI/AAAAAAAAMIA/Tpqp66h_hdo2kXTmf5SlPWbqHSSeAnQtwCLcBGAs/s1600/Barclay%2Bof%2BBury%2BHill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0Jh2FazmD4I/XIo9GqGr5FI/AAAAAAAAMIA/Tpqp66h_hdo2kXTmf5SlPWbqHSSeAnQtwCLcBGAs/s200/Barclay%2Bof%2BBury%2BHill.jpg" width="166" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barclay of Bury Hill</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The Barclay family were established in Scotland from the medieval period, and the Barclays of Mathers and Ury will be the subject of a future post. In 1698, however, David Barclay (1682-1769), the second son of Robert Barclay of Ury, the Quaker apologist, moved south to make his career in London, and was apprenticed to a draper. He was made free of the Drapers Company in 1706, and established himself as a linen draper in Cheapside. Over time, the firm became increasingly focused on supplying German, Scottish and Irish linen products to the colonies in America, and when he retired&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;">in 1767, </span><span style="background-color: white;">his&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white;">firm was one of the largest in the north American trade, owning ships, and trading to New York, Pennsylvania, the Chesapeake, and the West Indies. He remained an active Quaker throughout his long life, and a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;">t his death&nbsp;</span>was reputedly worth over £100,000. He married twice, and had two sons by each marriage. This post concerns the family established by the second son of his first marriage, Alexander Barclay (1711-71), who was initially a disappointment to his father, since he quickly ran through his modest inheritance from his mother. David therefore secured his appointment as Comptroller of Customs in Philadelphia, and sent him out to America to assist with the management of the American end of his firm alongside his Government post. In America, Alexander seems to have developed a new purposefulness and maturity, and he was soon regarded as a pillar of the Philadelphia community. He remained in America for the rest of his life and married twice, producing a son and daughter by his first marriage, but no children by his second.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Alexander's son, Robert Barclay (1751-1830), was sent to England in 1763 to be brought up in the Quaker tradition in the household of his half-uncle, David Barclay (1729-1809), and he was educated at the Friends' School in Wandsworth (Surrey). He entered the world of business by joining the firm of American merchants founded by his grandfather, the London end of which was run by his half-uncle from 1767 onwards.&nbsp;Perceiving more clearly than most the dangers inherent in the deepening rift between the British government and the American colonists, David and Alexander Barclay first gave up their commission merchant business, and then gradually wound down their linen export business (which finally ceased trading in 1783). In 1773 Robert went back to America for a couple of years to tidy up his father's affairs and in 1776 David became a partner in the Freame bank, the oldest-established Quaker bank in London. In 1781, David&nbsp;Barclay and his nephews, Robert Barclay and Silvanus Bevan, bought the Anchor Brewery in Southwark from Mrs Hester Thrale for £135,000. Although David was for some years a sleeping partner in the firm, the brewery became Robert's enterprise. He took the Thrales' manager, John Perkins, into partnership, and in the 1790s the firm became Barclay Perkins &amp; Co. Thrales had already been one of the major London brewers, but under Robert's management, the firm grew rapidly and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">became famous for its Russian Imperial Stout which was widely sold on the continent.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">By the time Robert retired from the day-to-day management of the firm in 1812, Barclay Perkins was&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">the leading brewer in London, producing more than 330,000 barrels of beer a year.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7GrbIK1nv5Y/XItxIsghyTI/AAAAAAAAMIQ/qhaZTGzmSkYIw_nwrGc3pDrucGkfGEetgCLcBGAs/s1600/Northrepps%2BHall%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="860" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7GrbIK1nv5Y/XItxIsghyTI/AAAAAAAAMIQ/qhaZTGzmSkYIw_nwrGc3pDrucGkfGEetgCLcBGAs/s400/Northrepps%2BHall%2B1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Northrepps Hall. Image: Literary Norfolk/'Mr Whiskey'.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Robert's success in business allowed him to buy a country house. His wife was Rachel Gurney (1755-94), a member of one of the leading Quaker families in Norfolk, and in 1790 he bought Northrepps Hall in Norfolk, perhaps at her urging. After she died, however, he sold it to his brother-in-law, Richard Gurney, and in 1803 he took a lease on Bury Hill near Dorking in Surrey, where there was an elegant mid 18th century house. In 1814, he bought the freehold and began enlarging both the house and the estate.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1812, Robert Barclay began handing over the management of Barclay Perkins to his eldest son, Charles Barclay (1780-1855), and devoted the last twenty years of his life to the pleasures of his estate, pursuing his interests in science and history, and supporting a range of philanthropic and religious causes. The initiative for which the historian has most to thank him was his decision to commission artists to record the notable buildings of Surrey, apparently with a view to producing an extra-illustrated copy of Manning &amp; Bray's history of Surrey. The collection of over 500 <a href="https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/people/artists/john_hassell/">watercolours by John and Edward Hassall</a> which resulted is now in the Surrey History Centre.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Charles Barclay was brought up as a Quaker, but during the Napoleonic Wars he decided to join one of the many local volunteer regiments which were created around the country for home defence purposes in the event of an invasion. This was contrary to the Quaker tradition of pacificism, and when the matter came to the attention of his monthly meeting, he was 'disowned' by the Quakers, although it does not seem to have ruptured his relations with his family. In 1804 he married an Anglican, and subsequent generations of the family were brought up in the Church of England.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1830, Charles Barclay inherited Bury Hill from his father, and he put in hand further improvements to the building in 1831-33 to the designs of Decimus Burton. At much the same time, he was involved in building work for the firm, for an accidental fire at the Anchor Brewery in May 1832 caused an estimated £40,000 worth of damage. Fortunately, the premises were insured, but there was a great deal of work to be done in overseeing the rebuilding.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In the 1840s, Charles Barclay gradually handed over control of the brewery to his eldest son, Arthur Kett Barclay (1806-69) and turned his attention to other matters. He made improvements to the Bury Hill estate (which he shared with Arthur from 1847) and devoted time to his charitable works, becoming President of the Governors of Guy's Hospital for seven years.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">On the death of the last male heir of the Barclays of Mathers and Urie in 1854, Charles Barclay became titular representative of that Scottish family, and this honour is still held by his descendants today.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Arthur had initially been privately educated, and one of his early tutors had kindled in him a wide-ranging interest in science, and particularly astronomy. In 1847-48 Decimus Burton built an observatory for him on the hill behind the house at Bury Hill, but sadly he was only able to make use of it for a few years before a paralysing stroke in 1855 obliged him to withdraw from business and public life.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Arthur died in 1869, still relatively young, of a second stroke, and was succeeded by his son, Robert Barclay (1837-1913). Robert saw the Barclay Perkins brewery through incorporation in 1896, and was the first chairman of the limited company until 1911. He was, however, less engaged in the day-to-day management of the business than his predecessors, and found time for a good deal of fishing in the lake at Bury Hill and elsewhere. His son, Lt-Col. Robert Wyvill Barclay (1880-1951), took over as Chairman of the brewery and held this position until 1950, but having been active in the yeomanry as a young man he served with the Life Guards throughout the First World War. In 1914, before the war broke out, he attempted to sell the Bury Hill estate, although in the end only one of the estate farms and the wooded hill behind the house (which became a public open space) were sold. The motives for the attempted sale are not clear, for although there will have been substantial death duties on Robert Barclay's estate, his wealth at death was too great to make a sale essential. No further efforts to sell the estate were made after the war, but with the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 the house was requisitioned for military use. After the Second World War, the family decided to convert the house into flats, and while work was in progress on this in 1949-50, a fire destroyed the central block of the building. The ruins were demolished, leaving the two wings of the house - which have been flats ever since - as rather bizarre fangs. It is remarkable that no scheme for rebuilding the main block between them has apparently ever been proposed. The remainder of the estate was finally sold in 1952 by Col. Barclay's son, Robert Edward Barclay (1906-59), who in 1955 also merged the Barclay Perkins brewery with Messrs Courage Ltd.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">When Robert Barclay (1751-1830) died, he divided his holding in Barclay Perkins between his surviving sons, Charles and David, who each received a one-eighth share. Charles, as we have seen, was active in the business and became the senior partner, but David Barclay (1784-1861) pursued other business and political interests. From 1817 he was a partner in a firm of import-export merchants (Barclay Brothers &amp; Co.) which was regarded as a significant player in its field. His business expertise was sufficiently well-regarded for him to become a director of the Bank of England and to be recruited onto other boards of directors. He was a Liberal in politics, unlike his brother, who inclined to the Tories, and he served as MP for Penryn in Cornwall (where he had connections by marriage) and Sunderland at different times. In 1833 he bought Eastwick Park, an early 18th century house not far from his brother at Bury Hill, and undertook a substantial remodelling of the building, possibly to the designs of his brother's architect, Decimus Burton. In&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">1847, however, some unwise investments with unscrupulous partners brought Barclay Brothers down, and the firm had to be wound up. David experienced a significant reduction in income, and although he was not obliged to sell Eastwick, he did eventually decide to let it out and move to a smaller house in Cornwall. His eldest son, Hedworth David Barclay (1820-73),&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">who inherited his shares in the brewery,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;resumed occupation of the house, built up pedigree herds of cattle and sheep on the estate, and gradually recovered the financial position of this branch of the family. When he died, however, he left a young family, and on coming of age his eldest son, Hedworth Trelawny Barclay (1859-1944), sold Eastwick in favour of renting properties in Leicestershire, where the hunting was better. H.T. Barclay and his brothers were all, apparently, keener on the military life and on sport than on attention to business, and built their lives around these activities, which were financed by their shareholdings in the brewery. H.T. Barclay's only son was killed in the First World War, and his brothers had no sons, so this branch of the family died out in 1945 with the death of Reginald Barclay (1861-1945).</span><br /> <b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Bury Hill, Dorking, Surrey</span></b></h3><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ORnAf-PCneM/XH_5WiB7tBI/AAAAAAAAMGA/gzw0zzATqQEKanzd4Yx0cafnSfe59DPjwCLcBGAs/s1600/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B9%2B1823.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="513" height="392" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ORnAf-PCneM/XH_5WiB7tBI/AAAAAAAAMGA/gzw0zzATqQEKanzd4Yx0cafnSfe59DPjwCLcBGAs/s640/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B9%2B1823.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bury Hill: the house as first built, from J.P. Neale's engraving of 1823.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The estate, lying south-west of Dorking town, was formed from 1751 onwards&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">around a small farm called Chardhurst</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;by Edward Walter (1727-80), who in 1753 also inherited the Jacobean Stalbridge Park (Dorset) from his brother. Within a few years he had built up a substantial estate near Dorking and built the mansion house which he called Bury Hill. After his death, the estate was let to short-term tenants until in 1803 Robert Barclay (1751-1830), a prosperous Southwark brewer, settled there. He bought the freehold in 1814, and subsequently further expanded the estate until by 1914 it occupied some 969 acres. As first built the house consisted of a seven bay central block with lower two-storey wings to either side, which were further continued by low flanking walls. The entrance front faced north into the rising ground behind the house, and was of two storeys, but the show front was that overlooking a large lake to the south, where the fall of the ground meant that there was an extra storey.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jU9UoGR2inE/XH_6IWlZDHI/AAAAAAAAMGI/gEcS_JahUGIfVCCiL30naWv4MJL-rdPkgCLcBGAs/s1600/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B6%2B1844.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1109" data-original-width="1493" height="474" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jU9UoGR2inE/XH_6IWlZDHI/AAAAAAAAMGI/gEcS_JahUGIfVCCiL30naWv4MJL-rdPkgCLcBGAs/s640/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B6%2B1844.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Bury Hill: an engraving by J.D. Harding published in 1844 (but probably drawn in 1837-38) shows the house as extended by Robert Barclay.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">After he acquired the property in 1814, Robert Barclay is recorded as having 'greatly improved' both the house and grounds, and by 1828 the flanking walls had become arcaded colonnades linking the wings to large square pavilions containing the stables and kitchens, with pyramidal roofs and cupolas, which were fronted by three-bay verandahs, possibly initially of trelliswork. Charles Barclay (1780-1855) inherited the estate in 1830 and at once brought in Decimus Burton to make further changes to the house, perhaps including the addition of stucco to the house. In 1847-48 Decimus Burton was back at Bury Hill, designing an observatory for Charles Barclay's son and successor, Arthur Kett Barclay (1806-69), and it was perhaps he who, around this time, added a third storey to the wings of the house to the great detriment of its proportions. The observatory became ruined in the 20th century, but was subsequently restored as a house.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tsZ1ongaRzM/XH_68Kv43UI/AAAAAAAAMGY/AOpqd7y_vHIkmhegiJXHTXQJvKqzBmkeQCLcBGAs/s1600/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="927" height="398" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tsZ1ongaRzM/XH_68Kv43UI/AAAAAAAAMGY/AOpqd7y_vHIkmhegiJXHTXQJvKqzBmkeQCLcBGAs/s640/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B10.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bury Hill: entrance front in the early 20th century, from an old postcard.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-voCkxiHX5YA/XH_6f1O_dYI/AAAAAAAAMGQ/FI4Gm_-jx_IrDz8HsavNpEnyrsa7YeFcgCLcBGAs/s1600/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1559" height="442" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-voCkxiHX5YA/XH_6f1O_dYI/AAAAAAAAMGQ/FI4Gm_-jx_IrDz8HsavNpEnyrsa7YeFcgCLcBGAs/s640/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bury Hill: a photograph, possibly of 1914, showing the garden front as altered by Decimus Burton.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The grounds of the house were of some note and offered fine views both within the park and outwards from it. There seem to have been a number of small ornamental buildings in addition to the observatory tower, including a rustic temple with seats, offering several extensive prospects in different directions, which stood on the hill called The Nower behind the house.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YlhhbmsiWFI/XH_7zEpsTsI/AAAAAAAAMGo/XwCd0OAIpFob3MEXi0v3dFIR9Ph7urYCACLcBGAs/s1600/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1135" data-original-width="1600" height="454" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YlhhbmsiWFI/XH_7zEpsTsI/AAAAAAAAMGo/XwCd0OAIpFob3MEXi0v3dFIR9Ph7urYCACLcBGAs/s640/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B16.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bury Hill: bailiff's cottage by John Perry, from a drawing by J.D. Harding, 1837-38. Image: Dorking Museum.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8ZrCm7rimfw/XH_7Pvk-zVI/AAAAAAAAMGg/3_8JbDv1V846U5vJKqQ5DEJnodcjY3m6wCLcBGAs/s1600/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1243" data-original-width="1600" height="496" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8ZrCm7rimfw/XH_7Pvk-zVI/AAAAAAAAMGg/3_8JbDv1V846U5vJKqQ5DEJnodcjY3m6wCLcBGAs/s640/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B12.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bury Hill: Gothick cottage, perhaps by John Perry,&nbsp;from a drawing&nbsp;&nbsp;by J.D. Harding, 1837-38. Image: Dorking Museum.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">At much the same time as Burton was altering the house, John Perry of Godalming was engaged to design a picturesque bailiff's house and a farm in a similar style, and he may have also have been responsible for the estate lodges and a rather pretty Gothick cottage which were recorded by James Duffield Harding in a series of views of the estate made in 1837-38.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ioSg7W6oLTY/XH_830iPBcI/AAAAAAAAMG0/w18MWntWpHQ9yvHeLz9mXSbYnZT_67cgwCLcBGAs/s1600/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="545" height="430" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ioSg7W6oLTY/XH_830iPBcI/AAAAAAAAMG0/w18MWntWpHQ9yvHeLz9mXSbYnZT_67cgwCLcBGAs/s640/Bury%2BHill%252C%2BDorking%2B18.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bury Hill: the house after the demolition of the central block in 1952. Image: Historic England.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The centre of the house was gutted by fire </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">in 1949 or 1950 and subsequently pulled down, leaving the three-storey wings which have been converted into apartments. These have a&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">stuccoed and rusticated ground floor, but are cement-rendered above, perhaps as a result of post-fire patching up. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">On the south side</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, the ground floors project with a balustraded parapet over forming&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">a balcony, and there are pediments over the central windows on the first floor. All the windows </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">are in moulded architrave surrounds but they have lost their glazing bars. The surviving wings are linked by&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">corridors with&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">round-headed arches (the ones on the east side glazed) to single-storey&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">garden pavilions in front of the former stables and offices. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">These pavilions have three Venetian windows across the front with small round windows in the corners, and replace the trelliswork verandas which existed in the same position in the 1820s. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The east and west ends of the house have coupled Ionic pilasters rising the </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">whole height of the house with a pediment over containing a circular window </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">in the pediment: frontispieces which look very much like the work of Decimus Burton. The two wings still look down over the large lake, which is now used by Bury Hill Fisheries, and in which the most monstrous carp are sometimes caught.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: Edward Walter (1727-80); to daughter Henrietta, wife of James Bucknall Grimston (1747-1808), 3rd Viscount Grimston; sold 1812/15 to Robert Barclay (1751-1830); to son, Charles Barclay (1780-1855); to son, Arthur Kett Barclay (1806-69); to son, Robert Barclay (1837-1913); to son, Robert Wyvill Barclay (1880-1951); to son, Robert Edward Barclay (1906-59), who sold in 1952.</i></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Eastwick Park, Great Bookham, Surrey</span></b></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This was the manor house of the manor of Eastwick, and it is thought that there was already a house of some consequence here in the early 17th century, when it was the property of John Browne of Esher. His heirs sold the estate to Sir Francis Howard (d. 1651), who already owned the main manor of Great Bookham, but who made Eastwick his seat. Nothing is known of the appearance of the house at this time.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">On the death of Thomas Howard, 6th Baron Howard of Effingham, in 1725, the estate passed to his widow for life, and she and her second husband, Sir Conyers D'Arcy of Aske Hall (Yorks NR) seem at once to have employed the French Huguenot architect, Nicholas Dubois (c.1665-1735), to design a new house for the estate. He was a retired military engineer who turned to architecture, and is known chiefly as the translator of Palladio into English, although his preface to that work does not suggest that he was a committed advocate of the Palladian movement. The new Eastwick was a two storey house of red brick, apparently seven bays by seven, although since no illustration has been found showing it in its original form it is hard to be sure how closely it originally conformed to the Palladian canon. The house descended in the Howard family to the 4th Earl of Effingham, who in 1801 sold it to John Laurell. He is said to have altered the house and refaced it with stucco, and the earliest record of the building shows it in this form. To judge by this view (drawn by John Hassell for Robert Barclay), the external alterations were not extensive, although the Diocletian windows in the pediments were probably his work.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zFM4-ZZomnI/XID3EVEdLYI/AAAAAAAAMHA/VhOh8HDfg58nczQd-Lm2AMVpFDA4gficgCLcBGAs/s1600/Eastwick%2BPark%252C%2BGt%2BBookham%2B19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="792" height="422" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zFM4-ZZomnI/XID3EVEdLYI/AAAAAAAAMHA/VhOh8HDfg58nczQd-Lm2AMVpFDA4gficgCLcBGAs/s640/Eastwick%2BPark%252C%2BGt%2BBookham%2B19.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Eastwick Park: the house from the west in 1904, from an old postcard.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1833 the house was sold to David Barclay, who at once undertook further alterations and additions. It seems very likely that his architect was Decimus Burton, who worked at Bury Hill for his brother Charles Barclay, and whose Italianate classicism is exactly the style of the changes to Eastwick. The house grew a large service wing with a belvedere tower, and the rear elevation sprouted a full-height bow window; a glazed porte-cochere was added to the entrance front. Inside, the house seems to have been largely remodelled in the 19th century, although it is hard to judge what was done when. Only the severely plain top-lit staircase seems certainly to have survived unaltered from the original house (although even here the walls were given a new, more architectural treatment), while the neo-classical decor of the dining room may represent the taste of John Laurell in the 1800s. A tripartite saloon, divided by columns of porphyry scagliola with heavy Corinthian capitals, was created along the south-east front of the house. The elaborate ceilings here were in the style of the early 18th century, but inconsistency in their modelling suggests that they were wholly 19th century work. Such decoration seems unlikely for the 1830s or 1840s, and it was perhaps later work, as was the ceiling of the entrance hall, which was given a frankly Victorian treatment. Two smaller rooms had Etruscan style ceilings, which are more credible for the 1830s, but are perhaps also more likely to be later.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--g7HvHiZFls/XID3nPvmZ9I/AAAAAAAAMHI/8wzYpITyzFI7q__ZZpyrq5mPhuujt_wTACLcBGAs/s1600/Eastwick%2BPark%252C%2BGt%2BBookham%2B20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="935" height="458" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--g7HvHiZFls/XID3nPvmZ9I/AAAAAAAAMHI/8wzYpITyzFI7q__ZZpyrq5mPhuujt_wTACLcBGAs/s640/Eastwick%2BPark%252C%2BGt%2BBookham%2B20.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Eastwick Park: the saloon in the early 20th century.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The house changed hands several times in the late 19th and 20th century, and in 1922 was sold to a property developer, who sold of much of the estate for house-building. Bookham Common was bought by local residents to preserve its amenities, and the house and grounds were sold to H.R. Fussell, who transferred Southey Hall Prep School here from its original home in Worthing (Sussex). The house was requisitioned for Canadian troops during the Second World War, but the school returned afterwards and occupied the building until the increasing cost of repairs and maintenance caused it to close in 1955. The house then stood empty for a number of years before being acquired by Surrey County Council as the site for a new junior school. It was demolished between 1958 and 1960.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oaOzVlpKST4/XID7WnB_III/AAAAAAAAMHU/7BDggkQa-LQ1j0ca9-E5eVRq-VnnVaMaACLcBGAs/s1600/Eastwick%2BPark%252C%2BGt%2BBookham%2B6%2Bdem%2B1958.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1101" data-original-width="1495" height="470" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oaOzVlpKST4/XID7WnB_III/AAAAAAAAMHU/7BDggkQa-LQ1j0ca9-E5eVRq-VnnVaMaACLcBGAs/s640/Eastwick%2BPark%252C%2BGt%2BBookham%2B6%2Bdem%2B1958.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Eastwick Park: the shell during demolition, 1958.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Descent: John Browne of Esher (fl. 1615), whose heirs sold 1626 to Sir Francis Howard (d. 1651), kt.; to son, Sir Charles Howard (d. 1673), kt.; to son, Francis Howard (1643-95), 5th Baron Howard of Effingham; to son, Thomas Howard (1682-1725), 6th Baron Howard of Effingham; to widow, Elizabeth (d. 1741), later wife of Sir Conyers D'Arcy (d. 1758) of Aske Hall (Yorks NR) for life and then to brother, Francis Howard (1683-1743), 7th Baron Howard of Effingham and 1st Earl of Effingham; to son, Thomas Howard (c.1714-63), 2nd Earl of Effingham; to son, Thomas Howard (1747-91), 3rd Earl of Effingham; to brother, Richard Howard (1748-1816), 4th Earl of Effingham, who sold 1801 to James Laurell; sold 1809 to Louis Bazalgette (1750-1830); sold 1833 to David Barclay (1784-1861); to son, Hedworth David Barclay (1820-73); to son, Hedworth Trelawny Barclay (1859-1944); sold 1882 to William Keswick (1834-1912); to widow Alice (1874-1966), later wife of Cyril Cameron Pyke (c.1873-1951); sold&nbsp;</span></i></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>1918 to Hipplyte Louis Wiehe du Coudray Souchon; sold 1922 to Percy Portway Harvey, who sold off land for building and sold house to Henry Reginald Fussell (1879-1943) as Southey Hall Preparatory School, which closed 1955; demolished c.1958-60.</i></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Barclay family of Bury Hill</span></b></h3><br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O74ZFzoKGvE/XIkRRg8_fDI/AAAAAAAAMH0/N2ZSKfH8EWAMOskHSTe_biAEDr3cKlVMQCLcBGAs/s1600/Barclay%252C%2BAlexander002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1388" data-original-width="1190" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O74ZFzoKGvE/XIkRRg8_fDI/AAAAAAAAMH0/N2ZSKfH8EWAMOskHSTe_biAEDr3cKlVMQCLcBGAs/s200/Barclay%252C%2BAlexander002.jpg" width="171" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alexander Barclay (1711-71)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Alexander (1711-71). </b>Second son of David Barclay (1682-1769) [for whom see my forthcoming post on the Barclays of Knotts Green etc.], and his first wife Anne, daughter of James Taylor of London, born in Cheapside, London, 11 November 1711. As a young man he seems to have been rather extravagant and quickly ran through the money left him by his mother. He then went to America to act as an agent for his father's London export business, and also held the appointment of </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Comptroller of Customs in Philadelphia, 1749-71. He married 1st, 29 January 1750 at Christ Church, Philadelphia, Anne (1729-53), daughter of Robert Hickman, a London cabinet-maker (who was staying with her uncle, John Hyatt, in Philadelphia); and 2nd,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">8 February 1759, Rebecca&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(c.1716-84)</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, daughter of Peter Evans and widow of Peter Robertson</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, sheriff of Philadelphia, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Robert Barclay (1751-1830) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Patience Barclay (1753-81); married 1st, 4 August 1772, Joseph Worrell, and 2nd, 6 June 1780, as his second wife, Reynold Keen (b. c.1738); died 4 January 1781 and was buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived in London and later in Philadelphia. In 1769 bought the mansion known as Woodford in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, which was sold to his brother-in-law, David Franks after his death. While in America he acquired some 20,000 acres of coal-rich lands on the Susquehanna river in Pennsylvania which remained in his family for several generations.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), 12 January 1771. His first wife died in Philadelphia and was buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia, 23 June 1753. His widow died in Philadelphia, 25 April 1784.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6yphHZYUEQM/XIVITOcUXEI/AAAAAAAAMHg/YtqoOsdDDdIRhYtCIqQg4ynzgDkTDW9UgCLcBGAs/s1600/Barclay%252C%2BRobert%2Bd1830.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="317" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6yphHZYUEQM/XIVITOcUXEI/AAAAAAAAMHg/YtqoOsdDDdIRhYtCIqQg4ynzgDkTDW9UgCLcBGAs/s200/Barclay%252C%2BRobert%2Bd1830.jpg" width="158" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Barclay (1751-1830)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Robert (1751-1830). </b>Only son of Alexander Barclay (1711-71) and his first wife Anne, daughter of Robert Hickman, born in Philadelphia (USA), 15 May and baptised at Christ Church, Philadelphia, 12 June 1751. In 1763 he was sent to England and brought up in the Quaker tradition by his half-uncle, David Barclay (1728-1809). Educated at the Friends' School, Wandsworth. He began work in the Cheapside offices of his father's firm of American merchants, and after the deaths of his father and grandfather he went to America in 1773 for about two years to wind up their affairs. On the death of Henry Thrale, the great London brewer (and husband of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Delany">Mary Delany</a>) in 1781, he bought the Anchor Brewery in Southwark for £135,000 with the financial support of his uncle, David Barclay and his cousin, Silvanus Bevan, and he took the former manager John Perkins into partnership; they traded as Barclay Perkins &amp; Co. from 1798. He handed over management of the business to his eldest son in about 1812, but was Master of the Worshipful Company of Brewers in 1813. From childhood he had an interest in science, and in the 1780s he developed a taste for botany and gardening, becoming a founder member of the Linnean Society in 1788. At Bury Hill, he made a number of farming experiments as well as improving the house and grounds.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He commissioned John Hassell and other topographical artists to make over 700 watercolours of Surrey buildings, apparently with a view to creating a Graingerised copy of Manning &amp; Bray's history of Surrey. He was a supporter of many social and philanthropic causes, especially the abolition of slavery, the Bible Society, and missionary work. He married 1st, 2 October 1775 at Norwich Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, Rachel (1755-94), daughter of John Gurney of Keswick (Norfk), and 2nd, 10 July 1805 at St Leonard, Shoreditch (Middx), Margaret Hodgson (c.1764-1837), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Elisabeth Barclay (1776-78), born 10 July 1776; died in infancy of smallpox, 22 June 1778 and was buried at Bunhill Fields, 24 June 1778;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Agatha Barclay (1778-1854), born 8 November 1778;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, 30 July 1827 at Brighton (Sussex), George Hillhouse, but had no issue; died 14 January and was buried at Budock (Cornw.), 21 January 1854;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.3)&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Anna Barclay (1779-1810), born 21 December 1779; married, 15 August 1799 at Kingston (Surrey), Jacob Foster Reynolds (1775-1851) of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Carshalton House (Surrey)</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, bleacher, and had issue one son and two daughters; died at Brighton, 26 May 1810;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.4) Charles Barclay (1780-1855) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.5) Rachel Barclay (1782-1824), born 13 March 1782; died unmarried, 1 January, and was buried at Wotton, 6 January 1824;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.6) <i>twin,&nbsp;</i>Lucy Barclay (1783-1859), born 24 April 1783; married, 27 December 1810, George Croker Fox (1785-1850) of Grove Hill, Falmouth (Cornw.), shipping agent, but had no issue; died 4 February 1859; will proved 17 February 1859 (effects under £8,000);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.7) <i>twin,&nbsp;</i>Elizabeth Barclay (1783-1827), born 24 April 1783; died unmarried, 4 December, and was buried at Brighton, 11 December 1827;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.8) David Barclay (1784-1861) [for whom see below, Barclay family of Eastwick Park];</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.9)&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Maria Barclay (1785-1858), born 11 December 1785; married, 28 April 1814, Robert Were Fox FRS (1789-1877) of Penjerrick (Cornw.), shipping agent, and had issue two sons and two daughters; died 4 June 1858;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.10) Gurney Barclay (1786-1820), born at Clapham, 20 December 1786; partner in a wholesale tea merchants (Sanderson &amp; Barclay) in London; married, 31 March 1818 at Redenhall (Norfk), Mary Elizabeth (1791-1871) (who m2, June 1825 at St James, Piccadilly, Westminster (Middx), Col. De Lancey Barclay (c.1780-1826), and m3, 11 January 1831 at St George, Hanover Square, London, Charles Augustus Stewart, and had further issue one son), daughter of John Freshfield, and had issue one son; died of apoplexy* at Youghal (Ireland), 10 September and was buried at Wotton (Surrey), 29 September 1820;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.11) Martha Barclay (b. &amp; d. 1788), born 9 January 1788; died in infancy, 31 May 1788 and was buried at Bunhill Fields;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.12) Martha Barclay (1789-1833), born 8 December 1789;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, 14 June 1821 at Dorking, Lt-Col. John Bromhead CB (1776-1837) and had issue one son and three daughters (who when orphaned were left in the guardianship of her nephew, Arthur Kett Barclay); died 20 April and was buried at Swindon (Glos), 27 April 1833;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.13) Alexander Barclay (1791-1812), born 21 February 1791; died unmarried, 6 September 1812;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.14) Alfred Barclay (1793-95), born 21 December 1793; died in infancy, 1 July and was buried at Winchmore Hill (Middx), 4 July 1795.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Clapham (Surrey) from c.1783 and bought Northrepps Hall, Cromer (Norfk) in 1790, but sold this after his first wife's death to his brother-in-law, Richard Gurney (1743-1810). He leased the Bury Hill estate from 1803, purchased the freehold in 1814, and made alterations to the house.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died at Bury Hill, 22 October and was buried at Winchmore Hill, 29 October 1830; his will was proved 6 December 1830. His first wife died 2 January 1794. His widow died 17 January 1837.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">* Some family histories say he died in a duel in Phoenix Park, Dublin, but I have found no evidence to support this.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jlGk9xz0wYE/XIkQmlhmPcI/AAAAAAAAMHs/n28wn59rXIcIC2hn4OeRCSI86GUIEm21gCLcBGAs/s1600/Barclay%252C%2BCharles%2B001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1153" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jlGk9xz0wYE/XIkQmlhmPcI/AAAAAAAAMHs/n28wn59rXIcIC2hn4OeRCSI86GUIEm21gCLcBGAs/s200/Barclay%252C%2BCharles%2B001.jpg" width="143" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Barclay (1780-1855)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Charles (1780-1855). </b>Eldest son of Robert Barclay (1751-1830) and his first wife, Rachel, daughter of John Gurney of Keswick (Norfk), born in London, 26 December 1780. Educated at Wandsworth (Surrey) and Alton (Hants). He was disowned in 1804 by the Quakers after joining the militia the previous year, and was baptised in the Church of England at Clapham (Surrey), 6 February 1815. He was an officer in the Loyal Britons Volunteers (Capt.). He was a partner in Barclay Perkins &amp; Co and effectively running the business from 1812, and inherited a one-eighth share of the business from his father in 1830.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">An accidental fire at the brewery caused a reported £40,000 worth of damage in May 1832, but the firm was well insured and rebuilding was rapidly instigated. He was also a director of the Imperial Insurance Co.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">A moderate Tory in politics, he was MP for Southwark, 1815-18, Dundalk, 1826-30 and West Surrey, 1834-38, and campaigned against slavery, but opposed Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform. He was a JP and DL for Surrey, High Sheriff of Sussex, 1842-43, and served as&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Master of the Worshipful Company of Brewers, 1826</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. Among his charitable activities, he supported an assisted emigration scheme from Dorking to Canada in the 1820s, and later published a vindication of it in the form of</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;<em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Letters from the Dorking Emigrants who went to Upper Canada</em><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;(1833); he was also President of the Board of Governors of Guy's Hospital, London, 1848-55.</span><em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</em></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He commissioned James Duffield Harding to make drawings of the estate in 1837-38, some of which were later published as engravings. In 1854, he succeeded his kinsman, </span><a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2013/12/92-allardice-later-barclay-allardice-of.html" style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Capt. Robert Barclay Allardice (1779-1854)</a><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;as head of the family of Barclay of Urie and Mathers [which will be the subject of a future post]. He married, 1 August 1804 at Seething (Norfk), Anna Maria (1781-1840), eldest daughter of Thomas Kett of Seething, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Arthur Kett Barclay (1806-69) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Robert Barclay (1808-43), born 10 August 1808 and baptised at Clapham, 11 June 1810; educated at Harrow (head of the school; left 1825); travelled in Europe with his brother, 1829-30; in partnership with David Barclay [see below, Barclay of Eastwick Park] and Robert Gurney Barclay as Barclay Bros &amp; Co. (which failed in 1847, leaving his widow and children in financial difficulties); he was also a director of the Imperial Insurance Co. and Treasurer of Total Abstinence Life Association; married, 16 February 1830 at Coggeshall (Essex), Rachel, daughter of Osgood Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Coggeshall, and had issue two sons and two daughters, who were provided for in his father's will; died in Tooting (Surrey), 6 April and was buried at Wotton (Surrey), 13 April 1843; will proved 4 May 1843;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Charles Barclay (1810-23), born 6 April and baptised at Clapham, 11 June 1810; died young while at Harrow School, 28 November, and was buried at Wotton (Surrey), 5 December 1823;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Anna Maria Barclay (1812-13), born and baptised at Clapham, 4 March 1812; died young, 1812; died in infancy and was buried at Clapham, 5 January 1813;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Caroline Barclay (1814-78), born 23 January and baptised at Clapham, 25 March 1814; married, 18 March 1837 at Dorking, John Gurney Hoare (1810-75) of Hampstead (Middx), and had issue three sons and three daughters; died 7 July and was buried at Hendon (Middx), 12 July 1878; will proved 5 August 1878 (effects under £16,000);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Rachel Juliana Barclay (1816-86), born 27 July and baptised at Clapham, 21 August 1816; married, 20 April 1847 at Dorking, Joseph Hoare (1814-86) of Childs Hill House, Hampstead (Middx), but had no issue; died 27 February 1886; will proved 29 April 1886 (effects £27,822);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) Thomas George Barclay (1819-94), born 15 July and baptised at St Leonard, Streatham (Surrey), 11 August 1819; educated at Harrow; auditor; given a moiety of his father's share in Barclay Perkins &amp; Co. by his elder brother after his father's death in 1855; Master of the Worshipful Company of Brewers in 1863; JP for Hertfordshire; lived at&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">of Lower Woodside, Hatfield (Herts);&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, 15 February 1844 at Dorking, Emily, daughter of Rev. James Joyce, vicar of Dorking, but had no issue; died 25 November 1894; will proved 28 January 1895 (effects £263,751).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He rented Betchworth Castle (Surrey) until he inherited the Bury Hill estate and coal-rich lands in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) from his father in 1830. He commissioned Decimus Burton to alter the house and John Perry to design ornamental buildings for the estate.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died as a result of a riding accident, 5 December, and was buried at Wotton (Surrey), 11 December 1855; his will was proved in January 1856 (effects under £60,000). His wife died 15 March and was buried at Wotton, 21 March 1840.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Arthur Kett (1806-69). </b>Eldest son of Charles Barclay (1780-1855) and his wife Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Thomas Kett of Seething (Norfk), born 20 June 1806. Educated privately and at Harrow (left 1822), and travelled extensively in Europe (with his brother Robert), 1829-30, visiting Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Germany and Belgium. A partner in Barclay Perkins &amp; Co from 1826 (eventually senior partner). He had scientific interests, and was a keen amateur astronomer, building an observatory in the grounds of Bury Hill in 1847-48; he was a member of the Meteorological Society from 1850 and became a Fellow of the Geological Society, 1827; the Royal Geographical Society, 1840, the Royal Astronomical Society, 1845 (Vice-President, 1854) and the Royal Society, 1852. An officer in the Surrey Volunteer Cavalry (Capt., 1833). He was Master of the Worshipful Company of Brewers in 1840 and acted as one of the Treasurers to the Commissioners for the 1851 Exhibition. JP and DL for Surrey. He was a Conservative in politics, but declined to stand for Parliament. He succeeded his father as head of the Scottish house of Barclay in 1855 and proved his right to the name and arms of that family in 1858. He suffered a paralysing stroke in 1855, and although his mind remained unaffected he was obliged to withdraw from business and public life. He married, 20 December 1836 at Basford (Notts), Maria Octavia (1808-1902), daughter of Ichabod Wright of Mapperley (Notts), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Robert Barclay (1837-1913) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Charles Arthur Barclay (1839-1901), born 16 January 1839; educated at Harrow (left 1855); Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; a director of the Economic Life Assurance Society and a shareholder in Barclay Perkins &amp; Co. Ltd.; married, 7 June 1864, Emma Rhoda (1842-1927), daughter of John Bentley of Birch House (Lancs) and had issue three sons and two daughters; died at Lausanne (Switzerland), 31 August 1901; will proved November 1901 (estate £123,329);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Henry John Barclay (b. &amp; d. 1840), born 12 July and baptised at St James, Croydon Common (Surrey), 15 August 1840; died in infancy, 22 August and was buried at St James, Croydon Common, 25 August 1840;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Frederick Kett Barclay (1841-93), born 7 August and baptised at St James, Croydon Common, 17 September 1841; educated at Harrow (left 1855) and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1861; BA 1865); rice, oil and cake merchant (in partnership with Joseph Wace Gray as Barclay, Gray &amp; Co. of Shad Thames, Southwark) until bankruptcy, 1881; married, 14 May 1878 at St James, Piccadilly, Westminster (Middx), Annie Nabbs (1851-80), daughter of Thomas Nabbs Dallimore, publican, and widow of Ebenezer John Ramsey (1849-76); died 20 July 1893;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Harriet Maria Barclay (1842-1937), born 21 December 1842 and baptised at St James, Croydon Common, 12 February 1843; from about 1869 she dedicated her life to evangelical missionary work in Bermondsey (Surrey), where she lived and founded two mission halls; author of several works on Christian upbringing of children; died unmarried aged 94 on 3 February 1937; will proved 19 March 1937 (estate £3,746);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Rachel Caroline Barclay (1844-88), born 24 March and baptised at St James, Croydon Common, 29 May 1844; married, 24 August 1864, Col. Sir James Gildea (1838-1920), kt., son of the Very Rev. George Robert Gildea, rector of Marylough and provost of Tuam (Galway), and had issue three sons and two daughters; died 4 June 1888;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) Adeline Henrietta Barclay (1845-99), born 1845 and baptised at St James, Croydon Common, 14 January 1846; married, 29 July 1864, her cousin, Col. Hanbury Barclay (1836-1909), eldest son of Robert Barclay (1808-43), and had issue three sons and two daughters; died 7 December 1899;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(8) Emily Octavia Barclay (1847-1926), born 4 August and baptised at Dorking, 29 September 1847; married, 14 July 1868, Sir Reginald More Bray (1842-1923) of Shere (Surrey), judge, and had issue four sons and four daughters; died 17 April 1926; will proved 19 June and 29 July 1926 (estate £7,753);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(9) Margaret Barclay (1849-1914); author of a novel,&nbsp;<i>Stranger in a Strange Land</i>&nbsp;(1882) and co-author of <i>Failure and Fortune in Farming </i>(1883); married, 1 July 1869 at Westcott, Sir Arthur Temple Felix Clay (1843-1928), 1st bt., and had issue two sons; died 25 December 1914; administration of her goods granted to her husband, 29 January 1916 (estate £922);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(10) Neville Juliana Barclay (1851-1933), born 16 January and baptised at Dorking, 21 April 1851; married, 1876, Rev. Charles Lea-Wilson (1851-1936) of Glenwillyn, Northwood (Middx), and had issue seven sons and four daughters; died 17 September 1933; will proved 23 October 1933 (estate £1,402);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(11) Rev. Charles Wright Barclay (1853-1926), born 8 November and baptised at Westcott, 18 December 1853; educated at Harrow (left 1871) and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1872; BA 1876; MA 1880); vicar of Little Amwell (Herts), 1881-1920; author of a history of the Barclay family; married, 10 March 1881 at St Anne, Limehouse (Middx), Florence Louisa (d. 1921), novelist, daughter of Rev. Samuel Beddowe Charlesworth, rector of Limehouse (Middx), and had issue two sons and six daughters; died 27 January 1926; will proved 19 March 1926 (estate £44,869).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived with his father at Bury Hill from 1847 and inherited the estate on his father's death in 1855, and also coal-rich lands in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died of a second stroke, 20 November 1869; his will was proved 12 February 1870 (effects under £160,000). His widow died 19 October 1902; her will was proved 26 November 1902 (estate £501).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Robert (1837-1913).&nbsp;</b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Eldest son of Arthur Kett Barclay (1806-69) and his wife Maria Octavia, daughter of Ichabod Wright of Mapperley (Notts), born 7 October and baptised at Dorking, 25 December 1837. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1855; BA 1859; MA 1862). An officer in the Surrey Rifle Volunteers (Lt., 1860). JP and DL for Surrey; High Sheriff of Surrey, 1878. He succeeded his father as&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">chief of the Scottish house of Barclay in 1869. He was senior partner in Barclay Perkins &amp; Co., brewers and, after the firm was made into a limited company in 1896, served as its first Chairman, 1896-1911; he was also a director of the Royal Exchange Assurance Co., 1861-1913. He was Master of the Worshipful Company of Brewers in 1871, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and President of the Dorking Angling Society, 1905-13. He was a Conservative in politics and was Chairman of the Dorking Conservative Association for many years. He married, 28 November 1877 at Denton (Yorks NR), Laura Charlotte Rachel (1850-1938), eldest daughter of Marmaduke Wyvill MP of Constable Burton (Yorks NR), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Robert Wyvill Barclay (1880-1951) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Ellen Rachel Barclay (1881-1970), born 16 December 1881; married, 28 December 1922, Canon Alfred Ellis Farrow (1882-1961), vicar of St Cuthbert, Sheffield, only surviving son of Rev. John Ellis Farrow, rector of Flaxton (Yorks), but had no issue; died 3 October 1970; will proved 7 December 1970 (estate £18,397);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Maj. Thomas Hubert Barclay (1884-1917), born 13 April and baptised at Westcott, 11 May 1884; educated at Harrow; an officer in the Surrey Yeomanry (2nd Lt., 1903; Lt., 1908; Capt., 1912; Maj., 1916); served in First World War; was unmarried and without issue; died of exhaustion after being rescued from the sea following the torpedoing of <i>HMS Transylvania</i>&nbsp;in the gulf of Genoa, 4 May 1917, and was buried at Savona, Liguria (Italy); posthumously awarded</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> the Board of Trade Silver Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">will proved 12 September 1917 (estate £20,607);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4)&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Capt. Arthur Victor Barclay (1887-1963), born 11 August and baptised at Westcott, 14 August 1887; educated at Harrow; an officer in the Surrey Imperial Yeomanry (2nd Lt, 1906; resigned, 1909; returned 1914; Lt., 1917; retired 1921) and King's African Rifles (Capt.; retired 1919); served in First World War; married, 7 October 1918, Katherine Helen (d. 1943), only daughter of Arthur Valentine Willcox of Haverford, Montgomery (USA) and Lisnabrucke, Ballinafad (Galway) and had issue one daughter; died 27 November 1963; will proved 3 February 1964 (estate £74,944);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Capt. George Eric Barclay (1889-1917), born 25 July and baptised at Westcott, 24 August 1889; educated at Harrow and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; an officer in King's Own Lancaster Regiment (2nd Lt., 1909; Lt., 1913; Capt., 1915); died unmarried when he was killed in action at Morogoro (Tanzania), 24 January 1917; will proved 11 April 1917 (estate £9,381).</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He inherited the Bury Hill estate from his father in 1869.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 3 April and was buried at Westcott, 8 April 1913; his will was proved 4 June 1913 (estate £267,891). His widow died 13 August, and was buried at Westcott, 16 August 1938; her will was proved 9 September 1938 (estate £5,793).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Lt-Col. Robert Wyvill (1880-1951). </b>Eldest son of Robert Barclay (1837-1913) and his wife Laura Charlotte Rachel, eldest daughter of Marmaduke Wyvill of Constable Burton Hall (Yorks NR), born 23 November 1880 and baptised at Dorking, 1 January 1881. Educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1900; athletics blue, 1901-03). An officer in the Surrey Yeomanry (Lt., 1902; Capt., 1904; Maj. by 1913; Lt-Col.) and 2nd Life Guards (Capt.), 1914-18. He succeeded his father as chief of the Scottish house of Barclay in 1913. Director of Barclay Perkins &amp; Co. Ltd., brewers by 1913 (Chairman until retirement, 1950).&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">JP (from 1914) and DL for Surrey; High Sheriff of Surrey, 1923-24.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">His chief recreations were shooting and fishing and he succeeded his father as President of the Dorking Angling Society in 1913. He married, 20 October 1904 at Shere (Surrey), Elsa Mary (1881-1956), daughter of His Honour Sir Edward Bray, kt., and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Mary Priscilla Rachel Barclay (1905-94), born 7 August 1905; gave public performances of a marionette theatre in the 1930s; lived at Bramley House, Westcott (Surrey); died unmarried 24 December 1994; will proved 30 March 1995 (estate £137,104);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Robert Edward Barclay (1906-59) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) John Stephen Barclay (1908-68), born 24 December 1908 and baptised at Mickleham, 21 February 1909; educated at Harrow, Trinity College Cambridge (BA 1930) and Inner Temple (called 1932); barrister-at-law; served in Second World War with Westminster Dragoons, 1939-45 (2nd Lt., 1939; Lt., c.1940; Capt., 1949; honorary Maj.); clerk to the Fishmongers Company in the city of London, 1949; clerk to Governors of Gresham School, Holt (Norfk); Hon. Sec. of Salmon &amp; Trout Assoc., the Oyster Merchants &amp; Planters Assoc. and Central Council for Rivers Protection; succeeded his older brother as head of the family of Barclay of Mathers &amp; Urie, 1959; lived at Shere (Surrey); married, 18 May 1940, Patricia, youngest daughter of George Slade of London, solicitor, and had issue one son (Humphrey John Barclay (b. 1941), television producer, current head of the family of Barclay of Mathers &amp; Urie) and two daughters; died 5 August 1968; will proved 20 December 1968 (estate £33,828);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Malcolm Eric Barclay (1912-72), born 12 March 1912; educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1933); served with Surrey &amp; Sussex Yeomanry and Royal Artillery in Second World War (Capt. 1939; temporary Maj.); manager of Style &amp; Winch, brewers, which had been taken over by Barclay Perkins &amp; Co. in 1929; lived at Gabriels Manor, Edenbridge (Kent); married 1st, 7 July 1934 at St Dunstan's RC Church, Woking (Surrey), Monica Mary Johnstone (1914-66), daughter of Gerald Trevor Johnstone Bevan of Blunts Hill, Witham (Essex) and had issue four sons; married 2nd, 1967, June Trowell (d. 1974) and had further issue one son; died 25 January 1972; will proved 16 May 1972 (estate £46,610).</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He inherited the Bury Hill estate from his father in 1913 and attempted to sell it in 1914, but only one farm was actually sold at the auction, while the wooded hill called the Nower was bought by Dorking Urban District Council as a public open space later in the year. The house was requisitioned during the Second World War and converted into flats in 1949-50, when much of the house was destroyed by fire.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 19 November 1951; his will was proved 5 February 1952 (estate £373,218). His widow died 6 October 1956; her will was proved 7 December 1956 (estate £10,745).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Robert Edward (1906-59). </b>Eldest son of Lt-Col. Robert Wyvill Barclay (1880-1951) and his wife Elsa Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Bray, kt., judge, born 12 August and baptised at Mickleham (Surrey), 10 September 1906. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1928). An officer in Surrey &amp; Sussex Yeomanry and Royal Artillery (Maj.). Managing Director of Barclay Perkins &amp; Co. from 1950 until the firm merged with Messrs. Courage Ltd. in 1955. Racehorse owner. He married, 20 April 1932 at Cranleigh (Surrey), Nesta Anne (1909-2004), elder daughter of Maj. James Robert Bury-Barry OBE of Ballyclough, Kilworth (Co. Cork) and Elvington Hall (Yorks), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Annette Barclay (b. 1934), born 29 March 1934; married, 6 April 1961 at Holy Trinity, Brompton (Middx), Rear-Adm. Sir Oswald Nigel Amherst Cecil (1925-2017), kt., only son of <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2014/05/122-tyssen-amherst-later-cecil-of.html">Cmdr. the Hon. Henry Mitford Amherst Cecil OBE RN</a>, and had issue one son;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Isabel Gillian Barclay (b. 1939), born 5 April 1939; married, 29 April 1961 (div.), Christopher Charles Clifford (later Clifford-Kingsmill) (1934-2008), son of Maj. Frederick Edward Clifford of Long Crendon (Bucks), and had issue two daughters.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited the Bury Hill estate from his father in 1951 but sold it in 1952.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 26 March 1959; will proved 2 June 1959 (estate £100,152). His widow died 5 May 2004; her will was proved 13 September 2004.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Barclay family of Eastwick Park</span></b></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, David (1784-1861). </b>Second&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">son of Robert Barclay (1751-1830) and his first wife, Rachel, daughter of John Gurney of Keswick (Norfk), born 29 September 1784. He was born a Quaker but was disowned by the Westminster Monthly Meeting in May 1817, and his children were brought up in the Church of England. He was a partner in Barclay Bros. &amp; Co., merchants, from 1817-47 when the firm became insolvent as a result of ill-advised investments in Mauritius, and was wound up. He was also a director of the Bank of England, 1821-23, 1824-26 and of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, 1825-28. In 1830 he inherited from his father one eighth of the Barclay Perkins &amp; Co. brewery and a substantial part of his personal estate. He was MP for Penryn, 1826-30 and (as a Liberal) for Sunderland, 1835-37 and 1841-47. His nephew, Robert Barclay Fox, judged him to be</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> ‘a gentlemanly and kind hearted man with good sense’, who ‘lacks force of character’. In April 1850 he had a narrow escape from drowning when his horse took fright during a violent storm and carried him into a mill-pool, from which he was rescued with great presence of mind by a youth working in the mill. He married,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;20 October 1818 at Whitburn (Durham), Maria Dorothea (1798-1846), daughter of Sir Hedworth Williamson, 6th bt., of East Markham, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Hedworth David Barclay (1820-73) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Alexander Charles Barclay (1823-93), born 1823 and baptised at Long Ditton (Surrey), 15 June 1824; educated at Harrow, Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1842) and the Inner Temple (admitted 1850); shareholder in Barclay Perkins &amp; Co., brewers; Liberal MP for Taunton, 1865-80; a noted racehorse owner; lived at Scraptoft Hall (Leics) which he leased and also at Beeby (Leics), which he owned; died unmarried</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, 10 January 1893 and was buried at Beeby; will proved 27 February 1893 (effects £142,533);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Maria Dorothea Barclay (1826-1900), born 26 February 1826 and baptised at St Mary, Bryanston Square, London, 27 March 1826; lived at St. Nicholas House, Richmond (Yorks NR), which she inherited in 1873 from the Earl of Zetland (brother-in-law to her mother); died unmarried, 8 January 1900; will proved 6 March 1900 (estate £31,066);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Robert William Barclay (1828-96), born 23 January 1828 and baptised at Dorking, 14 October 1832; East India merchant in partnership with William Turck (as Turck &amp; Barclay) until 1864, when the firm went into liquidation; died 15 November, and was buried at Carshalton (Surrey), 19 November 1896; lived latterly at Hackbridge Lodge, Carshalton (Surrey); will proved 28 December 1896 (effects £40,823);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Capt. David Barclay (1831-90), born 13 August 1831 and baptised at Dorking, 14 October 1832; an officer in the 16th Lancers (Cornet, 1849; Lt., 1850; Capt., 1853; retired 1863); lived with his brother at Scraptoft Hall; died unmarried as result of falling from his horse while hunting at Great Dalby (Leics), 21 February 1890, and was buried at Beeby (Leics);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Elizabeth Anne Barclay (1834-95), born 30 November and baptised at Great Bookham, 28 December 1834; lived at Mendon Vean, Falmouth (Cornw.); died unmarried in London, 12 March 1895; will proved 20 April 1895 (estate £14,117).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He purchased the Eastwick Park estate in 1833 and remodelled it, possibly to the designs of Decimus Burton. His improvements to the estate are said to have doubled its value. After 1855 he let the house and lived at Roskrow, near Penryn (Cornw.).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died at Roskrow, Penryn, 1 July and was buried at Great Bookham, 6 July 1861; his will was proved 7 August 1861 (effects under £40,000). His wife died in Paris, 25 June 1846, and was buried at Great Bookham, 2 July 1846.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Hedworth David (1820-73). </b>Eldest son of David Barclay (1784-1861) and his wife Maria Dorothea, daughter of Sir Hedworth Williamson, 6th bt., of East Markham, born 15 October and baptised at Clapham (Surrey), 9 November 1820 and again at Long Ditton (Surrey), 15 June 1824. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1838). Partner in Barclay Perkins &amp; Co., brewers, of Southwark. Chairman of the Licensed Victuallers School Society, 1857-58. An officer in 3rd Royal Surrey Militia (Capt., 1853; resigned 1860). In the 1860s and 1870s he maintained pedigree herds of cattle and sheep. He married, 30 March 1857 at St James, Piccadilly, Westminster (Middx), Agnes Caroline (1827-1915), daughter of Henry Brereton Trelawny of Shotwick (Cheshire) and widow of John James Calley (1810-54) of Burderop Park (Wilts), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Agnes Emma Barclay (1858-1932), born at 10 Bruton St., London, 1 April 1858; married, 7 October 1895 at St Peter, Cranley Gardens, Kensington (Middx), Frederick Holland (1846-1927), eldest surviving son of Augustus Holland of Abele Grove, Epsom (Surrey) and St. Mary's, Uplyme (Devon), but had no issue; died 23 January 1932; will proved March 1932 (estate £25,449);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Hedworth Trelawny Barclay (1859-1941) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Harry David Barclay (1860-1940), born at Eastwick, 7 August, and baptised at Great Bookham, 28 August 1860; educated at Eton; an officer in the army (2nd Lt., 1877; Lt., 1878;&nbsp; resigned 1884; returned to serve as Capt., 1914; retired as Maj.); lived in London and later at Plumstead Hall near Norwich; inherited his uncle's property at Beeby and Scraptoft (Leics) and his partnership in Barclay Perkins &amp; Co, brewers in 1893; married 1st, 22 February 1890 at the British Embassy in Paris (France) (div. 1910), Ida Florence (1870-1945) (who m2, 1913, Walter Ernest Lawrence), eldest daughter of Joseph Crisp Clarke of Birstall Hall (Leics), and had issue one daughter; married 2nd, Jul-Sept 1911, Marie Louise (1884-1967) (who m2, Oct-Dec 1942, John Balfour), daughter of Raphael Ambrose Bialé; died 27 October 1940 at his brother's house in Scotland; will proved 8 March 1941 (estate £36,699);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Reginald Barclay (1861-1945), born at 10 Grosvenor Sq., London, 24 December 1861; educated at Eton; an officer in the army (2nd Lt., 1880; Capt., 1884; Maj., 1894; Lt-Col., 1903; retired as Col., 1914); served in Boer War; appointed CB, 1911; lived at Moyles Court (Hants) and from c.1928 at Balkail, Glenluce (Wigtowns.); married, 31 March 1894 (div. 1903), Marion (1874-1950) (who m2, Capt. Charles Bryce and m3, Walter Godfrey Phillimore, 2nd Baron Phillimore), second daughter of Maj-Gen. Sir Cecil Robert St. John Ives of Moyns Park (Essex); died 12 December 1945; will proved 10 May 1946 (estate £84,402).</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He inherited Eastwick Park from his father in 1861.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died at Eastwick, 25 August 1873; his will was proved 8 October 1873 (effects under £120,000). His widow died in Brighton, 14 July 1915, and was buried at Great Bookham; her will was proved 18 August 1915 (estate £487).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barclay, Hedworth Trelawny (1859-1944). </b>Eldest son of Hedworth David Barclay (1820-73) and his wife&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Agnes Caroline, daughter of Henry Brereton Trelawny of Shotwick (Cheshire) and widow of John James Calley of Burderop Park (Wilts),</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;born 10 May and baptised at St George, Hanover Sq., London, 4 June 1859. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1877). Partner in Barclay, Perkins &amp; Co., brewers, until the firm was reorganised as a limited company in 1896. JP for Surrey. An officer in the Leicestershire Yeomanry (Lt.; resigned 1883; 2nd Lt., 1900; Maj.). He was a well-known racehorse owner (most famous for Bendigo, highly successful in the 1880s) and amateur jockey; he acted occasionally as a racing official and was also a keen huntsman from his first meet in 1874, despite meeting with a serious accident in 1906. His sporting interests extended to shooting (where he won the International Cup at Hurlingham in 1886) and salmon fishing for which he travelled extensively. He married 1st, 11 November 1885 at Chirk (Denbighs.) (div. 1912), Agnes Mary (d. 1920), youngest daughter of Richard Myddleton Biddulph of Chirk Castle, and 2nd, 15 May 1918, Katie O'Meara of Tipperary, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Nesta Katherine Barclay (1886-1979), born 22 November 1886; married, 12 January 1909, Maj. Sir George Julius Jackson (d. 1956), 3rd bt., and had issue one son and four daughters; died 8 May 1979; will proved 19 July 1979 (estate £81,605);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Vera Agnes Barclay (1889-1985), born 6 May 1889; married, 29 July 1912, Capt. the Hon. Thomas James Amherst Cecil (1887-1955), second son of Col. Lord William Cecil and <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2014/05/122-tyssen-amherst-later-cecil-of.html">Baroness Amherst of Hackney</a>, and had issue; died aged 96 in Hawthorn East, Victoria (Australia), 8 August 1985; administration of goods with will annexed granted in London, 17 April 1986 (effects £24,115).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.3) Rafe Hedworth Myddleton Barclay (1892-1914), born 14 November 1892; educated at Rugby and Army College, Aldershot; an officer in the Wiltshire Regt (2nd Lt, 1910; Lt, 1913) and Kings Royal Rifle Corps&nbsp; (2nd Lt.); was unmarried when he was killed in action at battle of Aisne, Picardy (France), 14 September 1914.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Eastwick Park from his father in 1873, came of age in 1880 and sold it in 1882. He subsequently leased Gaddesby Hall (Leics) and The Hermitage, Ascot (Berks), and in his last years lived in a service flat in London and at a private hotel in North Berwick (East Lothian).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died in Edinburgh, 24 July 1944; his will was proved 31 January 1945 (estate £179,430). His first wife died 23 December 1920; administration of her goods was granted to her younger daughter, 22 February 1921 (estate £4,443). His second wife's date of death is unknown, but he was living alone in 1939, and they may have separated soon after their marriage.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sources</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Burke's Landed Gentry, </i>1965, pp. 43-46; <i>Burke's Landed Gentry - The Kingdom in Scotland</i>, 2001, pp. 55-59; Brayley &amp; Britton, <i>History of Surrey</i>, iv., pp. 186-87 and v, p. 108; C.W. &amp; H.F. Barclay, <i>A history of the Barclay family</i>, 1924-34 (3 vols); E.H. Milligan, <i>Biographical dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920</i>, 2007, pp. 31-33;&nbsp;Sir H.M. Colvin, <i>A biographical dictionary of British architects, 1600-1840,</i>&nbsp;4th edn., 2008, pp. 202, 799; History of Parliament biographies of <a href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/barclay-charles-1780-1855">Charles Barclay</a> and <a href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/barclay-david-1784-1861">David Barclay</a>; <a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a> entries on David Barclay (1682-1769) and David Barclay (1729-1809).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Location of archives</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Barclay family of Bury Hill: </i>estate papers, 1541-1913 [Surrey History Centre, 644]</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Barclay family of Eastwick Park: </i>deeds, estate and family papers, 19th cent. [London Metropolitan Archives, 2305/1/1445 ff.]</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Coat of arms</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Azure, a chevron ermine in chief three crosses patée argent.</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can you help?</span></b></h4></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can anyone provide an illustration of Eastwick Park before it was altered in the early 19th century?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">Does anyone know more about the second marriage of Hedworth Trelawny Barclay?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I should be most grateful if anyone can provide photographs or portraits of people whose names appear in bold above, and who are not already illustrated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Revision and acknowledgements</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This post was first published 15 March 2019.</span><br /><b><br /></b></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-19642989688025977192019-03-02T17:16:00.001+00:002019-03-02T17:17:48.204+00:00(367) Barchard of Horsted Place<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lRxgY5Ye11A/XHVY3PJvpDI/AAAAAAAAMCU/OT_u8NqOBokd25MR0XT040-LLvdMV6byACLcBGAs/s1600/Barchard%2Bof%2BHorsted%2BCourt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1207" data-original-width="1004" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lRxgY5Ye11A/XHVY3PJvpDI/AAAAAAAAMCU/OT_u8NqOBokd25MR0XT040-LLvdMV6byACLcBGAs/s200/Barchard%2Bof%2BHorsted%2BCourt.jpg" width="166" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barchard of Horsted Place</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The Barchard family seems to have originated in the East Riding of Yorkshire.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Joseph Barchard (1711-70), son of a yeoman from Hornsea, East Yorkshire, was apprenticed in 1728 to Nathaniel Thorney of London, dyer, and subsequently established his own company at Southwark (Surrey) in partnership with his half brother, Peter. The firm was sufficiently successful for his grandson,&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Francis Barchard (1796-1856), to style himself as a gentleman and to buy Ashcombe House near Lewes (Sussex) as a country home after his marriage in 1824. His wife died in childbirth in 1829, but he remained in Sussex, and began to make his way in Sussex society, acting as the steward of local balls, joining a variety of local committees and trusts, and eventually becoming a JP. In 1845 he inherited much of the wealth of his godfather, Francis Hilton, another London dyer. With this new accession of funds he was able to buy the Horsted Place estate at Little Horsted and to rebuild the old house there in the Gothic style which Pugin had made fashionable over the previous decade. His architect was Samuel Whitfield Daukes (1811-80), a low church architect who was nonetheless an admirer of Pugin, and who could work effectively in a wide variety of styles, including - as he showed at Horsted Place - in Puginian Gothic. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T0pA1VMsFhg/XHqibSAMjQI/AAAAAAAAMEU/TRlRrAOFaZktbplU36sSEoxQip5Iqc-dQCLcBGAs/s1600/Ashcombe%2BHouse%252C%2BLewes%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="976" height="283" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T0pA1VMsFhg/XHqibSAMjQI/AAAAAAAAMEU/TRlRrAOFaZktbplU36sSEoxQip5Iqc-dQCLcBGAs/s400/Ashcombe%2BHouse%252C%2BLewes%2B2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ashcombe House, Lewes, the home of Francis Barchard from c.1827-51, <br />drawn by S.H. Grimm, 1787.&nbsp;Image: British Library Add, MS 5672, f.12.</td></tr></tbody></table>The successful delivery of a house in this style was greatly helped, however, by the appointment of Pugin's favourite builder, George Myers, as the building contractor. The design of some of the interior fittings was left to Myers, who seems to have obtained designs for the staircase and a chimneypiece from Pugin himself, and these works were exhibited in the medieval court at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Barchard subsequently caused some embarrassment when he rejected the chimneypiece, which was installed instead in the Duke of Devonshire's Lismore Castle in Ireland, but the staircase can still be seen at Horsted Place, which is now an hotel.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">Francis Barchard did not long survive the completion of his new house, which passed to the eldest of his three sons, Francis Barchard (1826-1904). The second Francis comes across as the model Victorian squire. He had qualified as a barrister and with this legal background he became chairman of his local bench and deputy chairman of Quarter Sessions. As a young man he held a commission in the militia and later he helped to encourage the rifle volunteer movement in the county. He took a strong interest in agricultural matters and in the church, and he and his wife actively supported a community of nuns at East Grinstead. He was a keen amateur photographer, had antiquarian interests, and was for many years Secretary of the Sussex Archaeological Society. The one thing he did not have was a family, and when he died in 1904 the Horsted estate passed to the eldest son of his brother, Elphinstone Barchard (1827-93) of Duddleswell Manor, Maresfield.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">Both Francis and Elphinstone Barchard had been Liberals in politics, but the heir to Horsted, Francis Barchard III (1863-1932) was a Conservative. In other respects, however, he was cut from much the same cloth as his father and uncle: he qualified as a barrister but did not practice, and pursued a similarly active career in local public office. His only son, Francis Barchard IV (1903-41), was a career naval officer, and perhaps because he could not readily combine such a career with life as a country gentleman, Francis III left his widow a life interest in Horsted Place, which she continued to occupy until her death in 1964. Francis IV was sadly killed when his ship was torpedoed in the Second World War, and when Horsted Place finally came to his widow and daughters in the 1960s they promptly sold it to Lord Rupert Nevill.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Horsted Place, Sussex</span></b></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">A rather fine new manor house was built at Little Horsted in about 1680 for John Hay. It was drawn by S.H. Grimm in 1783, who depicts a simple but elegant brick house of five bays and two storeys, which had a hipped roof with dormers, a modillion cornice, quoins at the angles, and a stringcourse separating the ground and first floors. Two groups of three diagonally-set chimneystacks were positioned symmetrically at either end of the roof ridge, and an extra touch of distinction was given by making the central bay at little wider than the others. The house 'stood on the brow of the hill, at a short distance from the church', and was separated from the road by a forecourt with gatepiers, railings and wooden gates, while a gazebo with an ogival roof can be seen over the wall of the rear garden.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ptQGa65wB48/XHVugH7h1oI/AAAAAAAAMCg/nmFPalIaMzIkTR7UMjgUwPPYpVTTm92dgCLcBGAs/s1600/Horsted%2BPlace%2B16%2BSHGrimm%2B1783.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="976" height="454" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ptQGa65wB48/XHVugH7h1oI/AAAAAAAAMCg/nmFPalIaMzIkTR7UMjgUwPPYpVTTm92dgCLcBGAs/s640/Horsted%2BPlace%2B16%2BSHGrimm%2B1783.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Horsted Place, as recorded by S.H. Grimm in 1783. Image: British Library Additional MS 5671, f. 94 (no. 178)</span><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;"></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Although Grimm shows what is obviously a house little altered since it was built a hundred years earlier (except perhaps for the installation of sash windows), T.W. Horsfield, writing in 1835, says 'the mansion has undergone very considerable alterations and improvements since the time of its erection'. These changes, whatever they were, must have taken place after 1783, but unfortunately there seems to be no visual record of them, and the house was swept away by Francis Barchard after he bought the property in 1849.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Barchard built the present house, Horsted Place, on a new site further from the main road, in 1850-51 to the designs of Samuel Dawkes. Dawkes was a versatile, not to say eclectic, architect who was equally comfortable working in the Italianate classical style at Abberley Hall or Colney Hatch Asylum, the neo-Norman of St Peter's church, Cheltenham, or the Puginian Gothic he employed here. The builder was, indeed, George Myers, who was Pugin's favourite builder, and it is thought that some of the interior decoration may have been left to Myers' discretion, as he was so well-versed in Pugin's style.<br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4e7EFrHpuTg/XHZVh4gg3GI/AAAAAAAAMCs/GsL-Sb_R9LseFOTNGNr04e90dtbuamHOgCLcBGAs/s1600/Horsted%2BPlace%2B2%2Bc1860.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1280" height="444" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4e7EFrHpuTg/XHZVh4gg3GI/AAAAAAAAMCs/GsL-Sb_R9LseFOTNGNr04e90dtbuamHOgCLcBGAs/s640/Horsted%2BPlace%2B2%2Bc1860.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: x-small;">Horsted Place: the new house in about 1865, photographed by Francis Barchard II who stands in the foreground with his wife.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: x-small;">Image: Victoria &amp; Albert Museum E.3258:134-1991.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Myers' contract was for the surprisingly modest sum of £14,390, although in the end the house, exclusive of furniture and decoration, cost £16,816; a mere nine months was allowed for construction. The house is built of red brick with rather relentless grey brick diapering, generous dressings of Bath stone, and tall brick chimneystacks, also with stone dressings. The windows are early Tudor in style, with mullions and transoms but with arched heads to the lights. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-djLEs0A-KRA/XHZWlN2XLCI/AAAAAAAAMC0/sZu8fc7tj484x5eqViqK2knqSc9duD7ygCLcBGAs/s1600/Horsted%2BPlace%2B018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1445" data-original-width="1060" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-djLEs0A-KRA/XHZWlN2XLCI/AAAAAAAAMC0/sZu8fc7tj484x5eqViqK2knqSc9duD7ygCLcBGAs/s640/Horsted%2BPlace%2B018.jpg" width="467" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Horsted Place: ground plan (after Girouard, <i>Victorian Country House</i>)</td></tr></tbody></table>The main block is arranged around a central corridor, running from one side of the house to the other, with the main rooms opening off it on both sides. To the rear is a lower service wing, arranged as three ranges around an open courtyard. The entrance hall was placed off-centre at one end of the corridor, reducing draughts, and enabling the corridor to be better lit. As a result, the entrance is at the corner of the house, and its position is emphasized by carrying the corner up into a tower a full storey higher than the rest of the house, with a staircase turret which is taller still. This strong accent makes the house decisively asymmetrical, though a smaller octagonal turret balances the composition at the other end of the west front. The east front is similar, but has an oriel window sprouting from a buttress between two ground-floor towers.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9PqINN4FljY/XHZXYVgrnLI/AAAAAAAAMC8/9pDTo996xhkE9fnmBtV4kKRHnSKFztNpgCLcBGAs/s1600/Horsted%2BPlace%2B15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9PqINN4FljY/XHZXYVgrnLI/AAAAAAAAMC8/9pDTo996xhkE9fnmBtV4kKRHnSKFztNpgCLcBGAs/s640/Horsted%2BPlace%2B15.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Horsted Place: the central corridor, looking west.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Inside the house, the morning room and double drawing room occupy the space behind the south front. On the north side of the central corridor, the staircase is in the centre, with the dining room on one side and the library on the other. The staircase has intricate foliage panels, incorporating the Barchard crest and large heraldic birds on the newel posts, and was partly exhibited in the medieval court at the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was apparently designed by Pugin and built by George Myers. A stone fireplace, intended for Horsted Court, was also exhibited at the Great Exhibition, but was rather embarrassingly rejected by Francis Barchard. (It was sold instead to the Duke of Devonshire, and with the addition of the ducal arms was installed in the Gothic hall of Lismore Castle (Co. Waterford) where it remains).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5XbyQubgw88/XHZX9fyVuoI/AAAAAAAAMDI/HVgAgGpFa5U0EMP7cDtcA6jm8STfKK8TQCLcBGAs/s1600/Horsted%2BPlace%2B11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="1000" height="424" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5XbyQubgw88/XHZX9fyVuoI/AAAAAAAAMDI/HVgAgGpFa5U0EMP7cDtcA6jm8STfKK8TQCLcBGAs/s640/Horsted%2BPlace%2B11.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Horsted Place: the library (now used for weddings)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The rooms are simply decorated with with joinery and chimneypieces very much in Pugin's style, and probably mostly designed by Myers. The furnishing and decorating was done by another Pugin disciple, John Webb of Hanover Square, London. The one exception to the Puginian tone is the Library, which is fitted with bookcases with clustered shafts and ogee arches of a rather more old-fashioned Gothick flavour. Could this be Daukes' contribution to the interior, after which his designs were rejected in favour of less frivolous Gothic by Myers and Pugin?<br /><br />In 1965, Horsted Place was sold to Lord Rupert Nevill (d. 1982). He and his wife were close friends of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, who became frequent visitors to Horsted Place in the 60s and 70s. After Lord Rupert died, however, the house was sold and converted into an hotel, which it remains today. The gardens of the house have an essentially mid 19th century structure, but were remodelled and extended by Geoffrey Jellicoe for Lady Rupert Nevill after 1965.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: John de Ward (fl. 1621)... John Hay (fl. c.1680)...Richard Hay (fl. 1724) sold c.1723 to Charles Beard; sold 1736 to Anthony Nott (d. 1791); to son, Rev. Anthony Nott (d. 1829), who sold 1792 to Charles Herbert; sold to Richard Chase; sold 1823 to Evan Law (1747-1829); to widow, Henrietta Law (fl. 1841)... sold 1849 to Francis Barchard (1796-1856); to son, Francis Barchard (1826-1904); to nephew, Francis Barchard (1863-1932); to son, Francis Barchard (d. 1941); to mother, Maud Barchard (d. 1964); sold 1965 to Lord Rupert Nevill (1923-82); sold for conversion into an hotel.</i></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Barchard family of Horsted Place</span></b></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barchard, Francis (1796-1856). </b>Son of Joseph Vipont Barchard (1745-1831) and his wife Jane, baptised at Little Bookham (Surrey), 21 August 1796. A prosperous London dyer, he inherited substantial&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">additional</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">wealth from his godfather, Francis Hilton, who was also a London dyer, in 1845. JP for Sussex; High Sheriff of Sussex, 1853-54. He was joint Secretary of the South Saxon Archers, 1849-50. He married, 28 October 1824 at St George, Bloomsbury,&nbsp; Margaret Jane (d. 1829), daughter of Elphinstone Piggott esq., Chief Justice of Tobago and niece of Sir Arthur Piggott, Attorney General, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Francis Barchard (1826-1904) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Elphinstone Barchard (1827-93) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Margaret Jane Barchard (1828-1902), born 4 April and baptised at St. Anne, Lewes (Sussex), 25 May 1828; married, 8 July 1857 at Little Horsted, Rev. William Lipsett Lawson (c.1823-93), vicar of Lynton &amp; Lynmouth (Devon), and had issue; died at Tunbridge Wells, 13 November 1902;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) George Barchard (1829-91), born 5 May and baptised at St Anne, Lewes, 27 September 1829; an officer in the 16th Foot (Capt.); lived at Gresham House, Anerley (Surrey); married, 1863, Alice Anne Sutton, and had issue; died 17 August 1891; will proved 19 October 1891 (effects £10,607).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He acquired Ashcombe House, Lewes in the 1820s and lived there until he purchased the Horsted Place estate in 1849 and built a new house there in 1850-51. Ashcombe House was sold in 1852.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died in Brighton, 17 February 1856; his will was proved in the PCC, 16 April 1856 (wealth at death, £250,000). His wife died 26 May and was buried at St Anne, Lewes, 2 June 1829.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L03qmZERhlI/XHqsFMxZeXI/AAAAAAAAMEg/pQONYjB1Ad0SAdB0hxfXyMQYQntZGMlQACLcBGAs/s1600/Barchard%252C%2BFrancis%2B1826-1904.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1086" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L03qmZERhlI/XHqsFMxZeXI/AAAAAAAAMEg/pQONYjB1Ad0SAdB0hxfXyMQYQntZGMlQACLcBGAs/s200/Barchard%252C%2BFrancis%2B1826-1904.jpg" width="135" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Francis Barchard (1826-1904)<br />Image: V&amp;A Musuem</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barchard, Francis (1826-1904). </b>Elder son of Francis Barchard (1796-1856) of Horsted Place and his wife Margaret Jane, daughter of Elphinstone Piggott, Chief Justice of Tobago, born at Ashcombe near Lewes (Sussex), 19 January and baptised at All Souls, Langham Place, Marylebone (Middx), 17 February 1826. Educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1844; BA 1849; MA 1853) and Lincolns Inn (admitted 1849; called 1854). Barrister-at-law. JP and DL for Sussex, and Vice-Chairman of East Sussex Quarter Sessions (resigned 1896). He was an officer in the Sussex Militia Artillery (Ensign, 1852; Lt., 1853; Capt., 1856), and played an important role in promoting the Rifle Volunteers movement in the county. He was a prolific and talented amateur photographer, some of whose work is now in the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum. He also had antiquarian interests, and was Hon. Secretary of the Sussex Archaeological Society (resigned 1894). In politics, he was a Liberal and later a Liberal Unionist. He also took an interest in agricultural matters and in Church of England activities, and was a supporter of the Sisterhood of St Margaret's, East Grinstead and the Missionary Students Association. He married, 12 September 1861 at Lancing (Sussex), Arentina (1825-1909), daughter of John Watson of Hove (Sussex), but had no issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Horsted Place from his father in 1856. At his death the estate passed to his nephew, Francis Barchard (1863-1932). His widow lived at Wicklands, Little Horsted.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 28 November 1904 and was buried at Little Horsted, 2 December 1904; his will was proved 10 January 1905 (estate £61,261). His widow died 5 July 1909; her will was proved 23 August 1909 (estate £10,078).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barchard, Elphinstone (1827-93). </b>Younger son of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Francis Barchard (1796-1856) of Horsted Place and his wife Margaret Jane, daughter of Elphinstone Piggott, Chief Justice of Tobago, born 15 February, and baptised at St Anne, Lewes, 15 July</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;1827. Educated at Winchester, Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1845; BA 1849; MA 1852; cricket blue, 1846-48) and Lincolns Inn (admitted 1849; called 1853). Barrister-at-law.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He was a Liberal in politics,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">and took a particular interest in the rights and privileges of the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages over Ashdown Forest (Sussex), which he defended to the best of his ability; he served as a member of the Board of Conservators of the forest until 'he found he could best serve the interests of the Foresters' outside it. He was an officer in the Uckfield Rifle Volunteers (Capt., 1870). Some years before his death, he was seriously injured when his trap overturned at Uckfield railway station and thereafter he increasingly withdrew from public life. He married, 13 September 1860 at Maresfield, Katherine Louisa Susan (1836-1908), daughter of Capt. William George Rose Barwell RN, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Francis Barchard (1863-1932) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Ada Elphinstone Barchard (1864-1952), born 15 October 1864 and baptised at All Saints, St. Marylebone (Middx), 10 November 1865; died unmarried, 14 May 1952; will proved 2 September 1952 (estate £10,603);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Gerard Elphinstone Barchard (1866-1938), baptised at All Saints, St Marylebone, 10 December 1866; emigrated to USA before 1898; lived at Summit, Benton, Oregon (USA); married, 9 May 1898 at Benton, Oregon, Etna V. (1875-1975), daughter of Joseph Skaggs, and had issue one son and one daughter; died at Contra Costa, California (USA), 31 December 1938;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Brig-Gen. Arthur Elphinstone Barchard (1868-1947), born 26 May 1868; an officer in 2nd West Indian Regt. (2nd Lt., 1889; Lt., 1890; Capt., 1896; Maj., 1900; Lt-Col., 1911; Col., 1915; retired as Brig-Gen. 1920); lived with his spinster sisters at Campfield Rough, Fairwarp (Sussex); member of East Sussex County Council (from 1931) and Uckfield Rural District Council; died unmarried at Hove (Sussex), 22 August 1947; will proved 19 November 1947 (estate £5,623);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Eleanor Elphinstone Barchard (1870-1962), born 11 June 1870; died unmarried, 22 February 1962; will proved 8 May 1962 (estate £20,693);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Reginald Elphinstone Barchard (1873-93), baptised at Putney, 30 January 1873; died unmarried, 6 May 1893;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) Edmund Elphinstone Barchard (1874-1915), born 7 October 1874; assayer and mining engineer; he travelled extensively and settled in the USA; he married, 9 October 1901, in El Paso, Texas (USA),&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Mary Bernadette (1883-1952) (who m2, 1 April 1917, Charles Garfield Williams of Columbus, Ohio (USA), daughter of Angus D. MacEachen, but had no issue; he was lost in the sinking of RMS Lusitania, 7 May 1915; administration of his goods granted 2 November 1915 (estate £655).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Duddleswell Manor, Maresfield (Sussex).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 19 October, and was buried at Nutley (Sussex), 25 October 1893; his will was proved 26 January 1894 (effects £2,637). His widow died 28 October 1908; her will was proved 24 December 1908 (effects £10,631).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barchard, Francis (1863-1932). </b>Eldest son of Elphinstone Barchard (1827-93) and his wife Katherine, daughter of Capt. Barwill RN, born March and baptised at St Nicholas, Brighton, 20 April 1863. Educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1881; BA 1884) and Inner Temple (admitted 1885; called 1888). Barrister-at-law. JP for Sussex (from 1895); High Sheriff of Sussex, 1921. A Conservative in politics, he was a member of East Sussex County Council, 1896-1932, Uckfield Rural District Council, 1894-1932 (Vice-Chairman, 1899-1905; Chairman, 1905-32) and Uckfield Board of Guardians, 1895-1930 (Chairman, 1904-30). He served as Chairman of Uckfield Military Tribunal, 1915-18, was a director of the Uckfield Water Company, 1929-32 (Chairman, 1931-32) and President of the East Sussex Poultry Society, a subject in which he took a particular interest. He married, 1901, Maud Agnes (1877-1964), daughter of Lt-Col. Divie K. Robertson, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Francis Barchard (1903-41) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Joan Barchard (1907-15), born 1907; died aged seven on 28 January 1915 and was buried at Little Horsted.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Horsted Place from his uncle in 1904. His widow l</i></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>ived at Horsted Place until her death, after which the house was sold. She also had a house in London at 66 Ashley Gardens, SW1.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 11 November 1932 and was buried at Uckfield; his will was proved 8 February 1933 (estate £138,854). His widow died 24 September 1964; her will was proved 25 November 1964 (estate £94,783).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c3-qBonPAE8/XHgNsO2vKLI/AAAAAAAAMD4/pmmodT3wBL0ayrZYZ88hsFPeRSUIV4MVACLcBGAs/s1600/Barchard%252C%2BFrancis%2B1903-41.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="404" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c3-qBonPAE8/XHgNsO2vKLI/AAAAAAAAMD4/pmmodT3wBL0ayrZYZ88hsFPeRSUIV4MVACLcBGAs/s200/Barchard%252C%2BFrancis%2B1903-41.jpg" width="189" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lt-Cdr. Francis Barchard (1903-41)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barchard, Francis (1903-41). </b>Only son of Francis Barchard (1863-1932) and his wife Maud Agnes Robertson, born 22 August 1903. He was an officer in the Royal Navy, 1917-41 (Lt-Cmdr, 1934). He married, 30 March 1933 at St Peter, Eaton Square, London, Joan Harriet (1901-71), daughter of Brig-Gen. Charles Edward FitzClarence VC, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Jane Anne Violet Barchard (b. 1935), born 5 November 1935; lived at Stoke St. Gregory (Somerset); married, 10 March 1962, Geoffrey Ewart Martin, son of Milton Ewart Martin of Twickenham House, Abingdon (Berks), and had issue one son and three daughters;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Elizabeth Maud Barchard (b. 1939), born 18 April 1939; lived at Mildenhall (Wilts); married, 13 July 1967, David Leslie Scott, son of Thomas Leslie Scott of Old Bosham (Sussex), and had issue two daughters.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Horsted Place from his father in 1932, subject to the life interest of his mother, who outlived him. At the time of his death his widow was living in Fairford (Glos).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He was killed in action when HMS Barham was sunk by German torpedoes, 25 November 1941; his will was proved 2 May 1942 (estate £9,356). His widow died in Chelsea (London), 6 January 1971.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sources</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Burke's Landed Gentry</i>, 1886; <i>Country Life</i>, 7-14 August 1958; M. Girouard, <i>The Victorian country house</i>, 1979, pp. 172-78</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">; P. Spencer-Silver,&nbsp;</span><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Pugin's builder: the life and works of George Myers</i><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, 1993, pp. 27, 45, 253</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">; N. Antram &amp; Sir N. Pevsner, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">The buildings of England: Sussex - East</i><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, 2012, pp. 544-45</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Location of archives</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Barchard of Horsted Place: </i>deeds, estate and family papers, 19th-20th cents. [East Sussex Record Office, The Keep, Brighton: BAR]</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Coat of arms</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Argent, two bars azure, on a chief of the last a golden fleece pendent between two millrinds erect or.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can you help?</span></b></h4><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">If anyone can provide more information about the respective contributions of Daukes, Myers and Pugin to the interiors of Horsted Place, I would be most grateful.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I should be most grateful if anyone can provide photographs or portraits of people whose names appear in bold above, and who are not already illustrated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Revision and acknowledgements</span></b></h4><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This post was first published 2 March 2019.</span><br /><br /></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-84132900694834535202019-02-28T10:40:00.000+00:002019-02-28T10:57:25.350+00:00(366) Barbour of Bolesworth Castle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EdVPueAIe90/XHAgreQcZtI/AAAAAAAAMBI/Lh_Hc3MZwBQJcyd4ma1kiyKISO4gZyMwQCLcBGAs/s1600/Barbour%2Bof%2BBolesworth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EdVPueAIe90/XHAgreQcZtI/AAAAAAAAMBI/Lh_Hc3MZwBQJcyd4ma1kiyKISO4gZyMwQCLcBGAs/s200/Barbour%2Bof%2BBolesworth.jpg" width="166" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barbour of Bolesworth Castle</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">John Barbour (d. 1770) established a linen factory at Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire in 1739, and in 1762 bought the decayed Auchinames Castle south-west of the village from the Craufords who had owned it since medieval times. By 1782, when his third son, Humphrey Barbour (c.1743-1817), was a substantial employer in the linen bleaching industry at Kilbarchan, the six or seven storey tower had been pulled down, and Humphrey had built himself a new house nearby, known as Bankhead House. It is not clear how large this was, as no visual record of it seems to survive, the house having been taken down soon after Humphrey's death in 1817, but the Barbours were clearly already upwardly-mobile entrepreneurial merchants. Humphrey eventually found himself undercut by other linen bleachers, and had to sell Bankhead and move to Glasgow, where he worked as a wine merchant. He had a large family, and his third son, Robert Barbour (1797-1885), after deciding that study at Glasgow university was not for him, joined the firm of a Glasgow export merchant, James Macfarlane. Within a few years he was a partner and running a branch of the firm in Manchester.&nbsp; When Macfarlane retired at the end of 1827 he took over the firm and he continued an active involvement in the business until 1865, when he retired to Bolesworth Castle, where he had purchased a 2,300 acre estate in 1857.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Robert Barbour had only one son and one daughter who survived to adulthood, and his son George Barbour (1841-1919) inherited Bolesworth Castle. He was educated as a gentleman, attending Cambridge University (where he took a degree) and qualifying as a barrister at the Inner Temple. He never practised in the law, but his legal knowledge was useful in his role as a magistrate, and he eventually became chairman of the local petty sessions court. His chief interest was in agriculture, and especially in dairy farming and cheese-making, and he expanded the estate from the relatively modest property his father had acquired to some 5,500 acres by his death in 1919. Although he was not actively involved in business himself, he had large and profitable commercial investments, and when he died he left an estate over £1.3m, which was perhaps thirty times as much as the average landed gentleman of the time. His son, Maj. Robert George Barbour (1876-1928), exhibited the same energy and entrepreneurial spirit as his grandfather, and continued the process of building up the estate, while also modernising and updating Bolesworth Castle, where he engaged Clough Williams-Ellis to largely de-Gothicise the interior of the house and layout new gardens around it. His improvements were cut short by his untimely death in a riding accident in 1928, and the estate passed to his eldest son, (George) Richard Barbour (1911-89), who came of age in 1932.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Richard Barbour saw service in the Middle East in the Second World War, and while in Cyprus married a local divorcee who had a son, Anthony, by her first marriage to another Englishman. His marriage did not meet with the approval of his mother and her second husband, and caused a permanent breach in relations between them. In 1945 he formally adopted his stepson, who became the heir to Bolesworth. After he came of age, Anthony Barbour (1938-2007) joined the board of the company which had been set up to run the estate, and in 1985 Richard handed over Bolesworth Castle to him. Once again a new owner sought to refresh the appearance of the house, and this time he turned to the fashionable London decorator, Nina Campbell.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Anthony Barbour may not have been a Barbour by blood, but he was very much in the family tradition of vigorous and active landowners. His obituarist described&nbsp;him as '<span style="background-color: white; color: #282828;">a generous gentleman entrepreneur who treated his tenants as though they were members of his extended family', and he was an early pioneer of diversifying the economic activity of the estate. This is a tradition which his daughter Nina Barbour (b. 1980) is now pursuing too, with a series of innovations which strengthen the economy of the estate while reflecting her own enthusiasm for horses.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bolesworth Castle, Cheshire</b></span></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Bolesworth Castle is set high on the western slope of the Broxton Hills in central Cheshire, backed by a rugged wooded escarpment. A house was first built here for James Tilson (d. 1764), an Irishman who bought the estate in 1747 and apparently used the money he acquired through his second marriage in 1750 to the dowager Countess of Kerry to create the house. Lysons in 1810 says it was from the first a Gothick house, and it was presumably built much as&nbsp;shown in the engraving of 1788 below, making it an exceptionally early example of the genre. The engraving accords fairly closely with another, rather clearer, drawing of the house in 1821 which is now at the house, and with a plan of much the same date in Cheshire Archives, and these suggest that it was from the first a picturesquely irregular battlemented house with a rather insistent use of Gothick windows. It seems likely that James Tilson himself played a significant part in its design, but it would be very interesting to know who or what inspired him to such a precocious piece of medievalism.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"></span> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; padding: 6px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w8TpLrMyt28/XHExTiJWdtI/AAAAAAAAMBU/buRBw792LdQo3vkpCmBtnVVBe6x0L47QgCLcBGAs/s1600/Bolesworth%2BCastle%2B16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="985" height="408" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w8TpLrMyt28/XHExTiJWdtI/AAAAAAAAMBU/buRBw792LdQo3vkpCmBtnVVBe6x0L47QgCLcBGAs/s640/Bolesworth%2BCastle%2B16.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /></a></div></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bolesworth Castle: engraving of the house in 1788, from Harrison's <i>Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry in England and Wales</i>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GMxIrjcar0s/XHavo7AZFlI/AAAAAAAAMDU/LTb5lhes4C8oy58KNPc8AVJUcdJ4nE23QCLcBGAs/s1600/Bolesworth%2BCastle%2B018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="1600" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GMxIrjcar0s/XHavo7AZFlI/AAAAAAAAMDU/LTb5lhes4C8oy58KNPc8AVJUcdJ4nE23QCLcBGAs/s640/Bolesworth%2BCastle%2B018.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bolesworth Castle: plan of the original house in 1821. Image: Cheshire Archives &amp; Local Studies DBC 3109</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">All we know of the subsequent history of this building is that having got into financial difficulties, Tilson was appointed consul in Cadiz, where he died in 1764, and that the house was then sold the house&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">to John Crewe, for whom the dining room was altered by Robert Mylne in 1777. Mylne may also have laid out the grounds, with a long lake designed to look like a broad river, and a Chinese bridge, but there seems to be no documentary evidence to support this tradition, and there is no reference to such works in Mylne's diary. It is perhaps more likely that one of the local landscape gardeners, such as William Emes, was responsible. Crewe sold the house in 1785 to Oswald Mosley (d. 1789), whose trustees first leased and then sold it (in 1805) to Thomas Tarleton. His executors put it on the market in 1821 but it did not sell until 1826, when it was acquired by George Walmesley, a Manchester businessman and banker, who pulled it down and replaced it with the current house in 1828-29.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Walmesley's architect was William Cole, a pupil of the better-known Thomas Harrison of Chester, who succeeded his mentor as County Surveyor of Cheshire in 1829. Although he did little country house work, he did build a number of churches, and right up until the end of his career in the late 1850s, his Gothic work was unarchaeological and paper thin.&nbsp;</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7qPRcxlyuAA/XHEzisEcFgI/AAAAAAAAMBg/v2D15i-0exUphniY-rcSPeWmNTJnH5ZTACLcBGAs/s1600/Hawkestone%2BHall%2B9%2BThe%2BCitadel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="720" height="281" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7qPRcxlyuAA/XHEzisEcFgI/AAAAAAAAMBg/v2D15i-0exUphniY-rcSPeWmNTJnH5ZTACLcBGAs/s400/Hawkestone%2BHall%2B9%2BThe%2BCitadel.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">The Citadel, Hawkestone: possibly a design source for Bolesworth Castle.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Image: Alastair Rowan, 1964.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>The inspiration for the design of Bolesworth may have come partly from Thomas Harrison's triangular Gothick dower house to Hawkestone Hall (Shropshire), The Citadel, with the design and building of which Cole may have been involved while in Harrison's office.<br /><br />The new Bolesworth Castle is of ashlar, two-storeyed, castellated and turreted. The long west front seems symmetrical but is not. It has a raised centre with a wide canted bay and wide bays at each end, but the right one is canted while the left one is a bow. The five main reception rooms were strung out along this front, with the dining room and morning room separating a library in the centre from a circular billiard room behind the bow window and an octagonal drawing room behind the canted bay.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GEWeDyKnni0/XHE0Hdg6qsI/AAAAAAAAMBo/7_Ni9ZDlJEEjtiMpiMxWImFLdKwTl9tnQCLcBGAs/s1600/Bolesworth%2BCastle%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="931" height="462" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GEWeDyKnni0/XHE0Hdg6qsI/AAAAAAAAMBo/7_Ni9ZDlJEEjtiMpiMxWImFLdKwTl9tnQCLcBGAs/s640/Bolesworth%2BCastle%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bolesworth Castle: an early photograph of the house before the alterations of the 1920s. Image: Historic England/R. Dennis BB89/3576.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">George Walmesley succeeded in building a house to bear comparison with the grand Gothick mansions of Cheshire like Eaton Hall and Cholmondeley Castle, but he overreached himself in doing so, and in 1836 he was obliged to sell the estate. It then changed hands rapidly until it was bought in 1857 by Robert Barbour (1797-1885), a Manchester banker, who could afford not only to maintain the house but also to expand and improve the estate. He built several model farms in the Tudor style to the designs of James Harrison (who had also been a pupil of Thomas Harrison but who was no relation to him), and then brought in Alfred Waterhouse, who designed the dower house and a lodge. Robert Barbour was followed by his son George (1841-1919), who made few changes to the house, and then by his grandson, Maj. Robert Barbour (1876-1928), who embarked on a thorough modernization of the house. The reputation of 19th century Gothic was at its lowest ebb in the 1920s, and Barbour regarded the castle as an anachronism. It is fortunate, therefore, that he selected as his architect his distant kinsman, Clough Williams-Ellis, who was both experienced in country house work and sufficiently in tune with the Picturesque spirit to ensure that the house was sympathetically modified rather than wrecked.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vNGKgUK9EMs/XHE2lo6La_I/AAAAAAAAMB0/2VhSz4GfkCkfr3K-6tQQUwpLQLCqIxd5ACLcBGAs/s1600/Bolesworth%2BCastle%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="695" height="474" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vNGKgUK9EMs/XHE2lo6La_I/AAAAAAAAMB0/2VhSz4GfkCkfr3K-6tQQUwpLQLCqIxd5ACLcBGAs/s640/Bolesworth%2BCastle%2B3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bolesworth Castle: the exterior from the south-west after the changes by Clough Williams-Ellis in 1920-23. Note particularly the inserted storey in the left-hand tower and the new facade of the saloon on the south front. <br />Image: Alastair Rowan, 1964.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Nonethless, much of the old interior was destroyed. The (often iconoclastic) <i>Architect's Journal,&nbsp;</i>in describing the renovations rejoiced in the 'gothicky glories...[which] departed with the cartloads of dingy lath-and-plaster rubbish into which they so pathetically dissolved at the touch of the house-breaker'. The one room which survived - perhaps at Williams-Ellis' insistence, was the octagonal drawing room, which has a Gothick plaster vault with moulded ribs and doors decorated with tracery, although it lost its gothic fireplace. At the other end of the house the circular billiard room became a new servants' hall, and the room above it was divided horizontally, with an unfortunate impact on the external symmetry of the fenestration, which one hopes might one day be reversed.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aAoeLVdhb8Q/XHeycHHxwpI/AAAAAAAAMDs/rlGsVnlGeOgfDR-B_7SEruRHPsjCa9UmwCLcBGAs/s1600/Bolesworth%2BCastle%2B021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1600" height="462" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aAoeLVdhb8Q/XHeycHHxwpI/AAAAAAAAMDs/rlGsVnlGeOgfDR-B_7SEruRHPsjCa9UmwCLcBGAs/s640/Bolesworth%2BCastle%2B021.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bolesworth Castle: the interior of the library before the remodelling of the 1920s.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The most tragic loss was the central library, which had spiky canopies lining the walls (perhaps inspired ultimately by Walpole's library at Strawberry Hill) and an enormous fireplace supporting tall Gothic figures on pedestals. All this went when the room was made into a classical dining room, decorated in dark green and gold by Hammonds, the London decorators. The greatest change made to the house in the 1920s, however, was to move the main entrance from the south end to the east front, where Williams-Ellis created a new outer hall paved with black-and-white marble flags and walls painted to resemble fine-jointed sandstone. This leads through a screen of yellow scagliola columns into the former entrance hall, which he reworked as a saloon that is open at one end to a tall galleried, top-lit space, all treated in a lively and informal classical style that is typical of Williams-Ellis.<br /><br />The 1920s alterations came to an abrupt end in 1928 with the death of Major Barbour in a hunting accident, and during the long ownership of his son, Richard Barbour, few changes were made. In 1985, however, the house was handed on to his adopted son, Anthony Barbour (1938-2007), who commissioned the interior designer Nina Campbell to refresh the interiors of the house.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: site sold 1747 by the Joynson family to James Tilson (d. 1764), who built the first house; leased c.1763 and sold 1766 to John Crewe (1740-88); sold 1785 to Oswald Mosley (d. 1789), whose executors leased it&nbsp; and then sold it in 1805 with 1300 acres to Thomas Tarleton (1753-1820), whose executors sold 1826 to George Walmesley, who rebuilt the house; sold 1836 to Thomas Crallan (d. 1856); sold to Edward Mackenzie; sold 1857 with 2,300 acres to Robert Barbour (1797-1885); to son, George Barbour (1841-1919); to son, Robert Barbour (1876-1928); to son, George Richard Barbour (1911-89); to adopted son, Anthony George Weston-Sanders (later Barbour) (1938-2007); to daughter, Nina Barbour (b. 1980).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barbour family of Bolesworth Castle</b></span></h3><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0iBGbwgZSL0/XHPF1T_FDYI/AAAAAAAAMCA/zQvvhVfaR1g9hnOXb_HnvZ_x8F9Kgk2BQCLcBGAs/s1600/Barbour%252C%2BRobert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1233" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0iBGbwgZSL0/XHPF1T_FDYI/AAAAAAAAMCA/zQvvhVfaR1g9hnOXb_HnvZ_x8F9Kgk2BQCLcBGAs/s200/Barbour%252C%2BRobert.jpg" width="153" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Barbour (1797-1885)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barbour, Robert (1797-1885). </b>Third son of Humphrey Barbour of Bankhead House, Kilbarchan (Renfrews.), linen bleacher and later wine merchant, and his wife Elizabeth, only daughter of John Freeland of Glasgow, born 20 December 1797. Educated privately and at Glasgow University, but embarked on a business career without taking a degree. In about 1814 he entered the firm of James Macfarlane of Glasgow, a general exporter, and shortly afterwards moved to Manchester to establish a branch of the firm there that specialised in cotton goods. In 1818 they formed a partnership as Macfarlane &amp; Barbour, and when Macfarlane retired at the end of 1827, Robert took over the firm, brought his younger brother, George Freeland Barbour in as a partner, and they traded as Barber &amp; Brother. After 1846, when George retired and moved back to Scotland, the partnership was extended beyond the family, and Robert himself retired in 1865. He became a director of the Manchester &amp; Liverpool District Bank in 1832, and was a major shareholder. He was also first Chairman of the Manchester &amp; Birmingham Railway. High Sheriff of Cheshire, 1866. He was a presbyterian in religion, and a member of the first synod of the English Presbyterian Church, of which he became a liberal supporter. He married 1st, 30 March 1827 at Edinburgh, Elizabeth (1807-28), daughter of Thomas Allan of Linkfield (East Lothian) and 2nd, 7 June 1836 at Barony (Lanarks), Janet Andrew (1807-96), daughter of William Fleming of Glasgow, merchant, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Elizabeth Barbour (1828-35), baptised at Manchester Cathedral, 29 October 1828; died in infancy and was buried at Chorlton-upon-Medlock (Lancs), 4 March 1835;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1) Robert Barbour (1837-38), born 23 May and baptised at St Peter's Square Presbyterian church, Manchester, 3 September 1837; died in infancy, 6 April 1838;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.2) Janetta Barbour (1839-91), born 25 March and baptised at St Peter's Square Presbyterian church, Manchester, 5 May 1839; married, 4 September 1872 at Harthill (Cheshire), <a href="http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2014/12/151-carmichael-anstruther-of-elie-house.html">Sir Windham Charles James Carmichael Anstruther (1824-98), 8th &amp; 5th bt.</a>, of Carmichael House (Lanarks), and had issue one son; died 11 September 1891;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.3) George Barbour (1841-1919) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.4) Robert Humphrey Barbour (b. &amp; d. 1842), born 18 June 1842; died in infancy, 15 August 1842.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Ashburne House in Victoria Park, Manchester until he retired in 1865. He purchased Bolesworth Castle in 1857.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 17 January 1885, and was buried in a mausoleum at Harthill; his will was proved 14 April 1885 (estate £472,267). His first wife died in childbirth, 17 October 1828. His widow died 4 May 1896 and was buried at Harthill; will proved 27 July 1896 (estate £2,619).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IeVxb75xCwg/XHa8XvzdW5I/AAAAAAAAMDg/r_4QYHPjD9EjDOGulo3ivwZ4eECiWPW_gCLcBGAs/s1600/Barbour%252C%2BGeorge%2B001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1377" data-original-width="1062" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IeVxb75xCwg/XHa8XvzdW5I/AAAAAAAAMDg/r_4QYHPjD9EjDOGulo3ivwZ4eECiWPW_gCLcBGAs/s200/Barbour%252C%2BGeorge%2B001.jpg" width="153" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">George Barbour (1841-1919)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barbour, George (1841-1919). </b>Only son of Robert Barbour (1797-1885) and his second wife, Janet Andrew, daughter of William Fleming of Sawmill Field, Glasgow, born 13 February 1841. Educated at Harrow, Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1863; MA 1867) and Inner Temple (admitted 1862; called to bar 1865). Barrister-at-law, but did not practice. An officer in Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry (Maj.). JP (from 1870) and DL (from 1890) for Cheshire; High Sheriff of Cheshire, 1890; member of the Tarvin Board of Guardians and Tarvin Rural District Council. His obituary described him as 'a model landlord' who 'exerted his influence at all times to maintain the position of agriculture as our premier industry', and he was in particular a strong supporter of the production of traditional Cheshire cheese, in which many of his tenants specialised; he was a Vice-President of the Cheshire Agricultural Society and President of the Cheshire Dairy Farmers Association for many years. He married, 19 October 1869 at Parkgate (Cheshire), Caroline Easton (1848-1935), daughter of Robert Andrew Macfie MP of Dreghorn Castle (Midlothian), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Caroline (k/a Cara) Elizabeth Barbour (1871-1959), born 5 January 1871; married, 26 July 1899, Dr. George Freeland Barbour Simpson MD (1874-1958), second son of Prof. Sir Alexander Russell Simpson MB of Edinburgh, and had issue one son and two daughters; died 24 January 1959;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Janet Mary Barbour (1872-1947), born 17 May and baptised at Harthill, 30 June 1872; ran a lodging house for young female workers in Kensington (Middx); died unmarried 7 March 1947; will proved 19 July 1947 (estate £76,021);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Eleanor Barbour (1873-1952), born 3 November and baptised at Harthill, 7 December 1873; married, 28 September 1910 at Harthill, Ven. Robert Henry Walker (1860-1939), Archdeacon of Uganda 1893-1912 and vicar of Broxbourne (Herts), 1913-19, son of Rev. John Walker, rector of Bradwell (Suffk), and had issue one daughter; died 3 December 1952; will proved 17 April 1953 (estate £18,927);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Robert Barbour (1876-1928) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Margaret (k/a Daisy) Gibson Fleming Barbour (1878-1963), born 5 July and baptised at Harthill, 4 August 1878; travelled extensively and was in India, 1916-19; died unmarried in Eastbourne (Sussex), 15 February 1963; will proved 14 March 1963 (estate £2,988);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Alison Macfie Barbour (1881-1969), born 29 August and baptised at Harthill, 25 September 1881; married, 23 February 1909, Lt-Col. Richard Norman Harrison Verdin (1877-1956) of Garnstone House (Herefs) and Darnhall Hall (Cheshire), only son of William Henry Verdin of Darnhall Hall, and had issue three sons and one daughter; died 6 September 1969; will proved 2 February 1970 (estate £43,766);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) Georgina Louisa (k/a Gina) Barbour (1884-1966), born 5 December 1884 and baptised at Harthill, 11 January 1885; died unmarried, 8 November 1966; will proved 7 December 1966 (estate £29,506);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(8) Isabel Easton Barbour (1888-1980), born 7 December 1888 and baptised at Harthill, 30 January 1889; lived in Kensington (Middx) and undertook voluntary work with Church Missionary Society, Voluntary Aid Detachment and Girl Guides; died unmarried aged 92 on 30 December 1980; will proved 24 February 1981 (estate £78,563).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Bolesworth Castle from his father in 1885. After his death his widow lived at Broxton Old Hall.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 3 November 1919 and was buried at Harthill; will proved 27 February 1920 (estate £1,311,253). His widow died 12 October 1935; her will was proved 26 November 1935 (estate £27,503).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barbour, Robert (1876-1928). </b>Only son of George Barbour (1841-1919) and his wife Caroline Easton, daughter of Robert Andrew Macfie of Dreghorn Castle (Midlothian), born 8 February and baptised at Harthill, 2 April 1876. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1897; MA 1903). An officer in Earl of Chester's Yeomanry (Maj.). High Sheriff of Cheshire, 1925. JP and DL (from 1924) for Cheshire.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He established the Bolesworth Trust Co. in 1927.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He married, 28 October 1909, Ida Lavington (1889-1985), only daughter of Arthur Lavington Payne of Staffield Hall, Kirkoswald, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) (George) Richard Barbour (1911-89) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) David Charles Barbour (1912-88), born 1 October 1912; educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (MA 1934); an officer in the army from 1934 (2nd Lt., 1934; Lt., 1936; Capt., 1941; Lt-Col., 1954; Col., 1958; retired as Brig. 1960), who served in Second World War (wounded; mentioned in despatches) and commanded Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, 1950-53 and 17th/21st Lancers, 1953-56; awarded OBE, 1957; an Officer of the Order of St John from 1972 (Commander, 1978); DL for Berkshire from 1972; married, 21 December 1940, Antoinette Mary Daphne (1913-61), younger daughter of Brig-Gen. Francis George Alston of Sandacre, Sandling (Kent), and had issue one son and two daughters; lived at Shortheath House, Sulhamstead (Berks); died 3 September 1988 and was buried at Sulhamstead Abbots (Berks);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Elizabeth Langley Barbour (1915-94), born 6 January 1915; married 1st, 22 April 1938, Capt. Joseph Gurney Fowell Buxton (1913-43), third son of Henry Fowell Buxton of Easneye, Ware (Herts) and had issue two sons and one daughter; married 2nd, 9 April 1946, Alexander Ludovic Grant (1901-86), son of John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus, and had further issue two daughters; died 27 August 1994; will proved 9 November 1994 (estate £210,402);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Rosamund Lavington Barbour (1918-2015), born 17 January 1918; married, 1 December 1945 in Chester Cathedral (div. 1971), Robert Charles Michael Vaughan Wynn DSC JP (1917-98), 7th Baron Newborough (who m2, 1971, Jennifer Caroline Acland (b. 1930), youngest daughter of Capt. Cecil C.A. Allen), and had issue one son and two daughters; died 17 February 2015; will proved 14 August 2015;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Robert James Barbour (1920-44), born 7 November 1920; educated at Harrow; an officer in the Welsh Guards (2nd Lt., 1941; mentioned in despatches); killed in action near Monte Cassino in Italy, 11 February 1944, and buried in Cassino War Cemetery, Lazio (Italy); will proved 19 December 1944 (estate £32,871).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Bolesworth Castle from his father in 1919. His widow and her second husband moved to Barford St John (Oxon) in 1945.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died following a riding accident on the estate, 3 September 1928; his will was proved 22 October 1928 (estate £1,162,543). His widow married 2nd, 10 November 1932 at Bickerton (Cheshire), Capt. William Hamilton Carter MC (1896-1977), the land agent at Bolesworth; she died aged 96 on 27 April 1985; her will was proved 19 July 1985 (estate £518,359).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barbour (George) Richard (1911-89). </b>Eldest son of Robert Barbour (1876-1928) and his wife Ida Lavington, only daughter of Arthur Lavington Payne of Staffield Hall, Kirkoswald, born 3 February 1911. Educated at Stowe. An officer in the Cheshire Yeomanry from 1930; ADC to 5th Baron Huntingfield as Governor of Victoria, 1934-36; served in Second World War in the Middle East, 1940-45; member of Cheshire War Agricultural Executive Committee and its successor body, 1946-50. Director (and later Chairman) of the Cheshire Observer newspaper. He was joint master of the Cheshire Hunt, 1938-40. His marriage while he was away during the Second World War caused a breach in relations with his mother and other members of his family, and remarkably this pattern was repeated when his own daughters married. In 1955 he bought out the interests of other members of the family in the Bolesworth Trust Company, put the estate in a settled trust, and established the Bolesworth Estate Co. Ltd. to operate the estate. He married, 30 December 1944, Eva Elizabeth (k/a Lulu) (1913-83), elder daughter of Najem Houry of Limassol (Cyprus), a Lebanese national of Armenian extraction, and formerly wife of Henry Charles Weston-Sanders, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Adele Janet Barbour (b. 1946) of Coomb Dale Lodge, Harthill, born 13 April 1946; married, 13 August 1974 at St Paul, Knightsbridge (London), George Howard Joseph Nicholson (b. 1936), and had issue two sons;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Christina Maree Barbour (b. 1947), born 3 November 1947; educated at The Queen's School, Chester and Royal Academy of Music (LRAM); married 1st, 6 January 1973 at St John, Chester, Peter Henry Shelley Barker (1940-91) of Borras House, Wrexham (Denbighs.), stockbroker, and had issue three sons; married 2nd, 30 September 1995, Tom Bartlam, travel agent.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He also adopted his stepson:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(A1) Anthony George Weston-Sanders (later Barbour) (1938-2007) (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He succeeded his father at Bolesworth Castle in 1928 and came of age in 1932.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 25 October 1989; his will was proved 27 November 1989 (estate £2,998,336). His wife died 20 November 1983; her will was proved 21 June 1984 (estate £351,872).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Weston-Sanders (later Barbour), Anthony George (1938-2007). </b>Only son of Henry Charles Weston-Sanders and his wife Eva Elizabeth (k/a Lulu), elder daughter of Najem Houry of Limassol (Cyprus), born 19 August 1938 on Cyprus. After his mother married (George) Richard Barbour in 1944, he took the name Barbour and was formally adopted by his stepfather. Educated at Stowe, Grays Inn (called to bar 1959) and New College, Oxford (matriculated 1959 but did not take a degree). He was a Conservative in politics, and stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in the Crewe constituency in 1964 and 1966. A director of Bolesworth Estate Co. Ltd from 1960; chairman of Cheshire branch of Country Landowners Assoc., 1986-87 and president, 1999-2007; High Sheriff of Cheshire, 1987-88; Trustee of Historic Cheshire Churches Preservation Trust, the Willoughbridge Garden Trust, and the British Sporting Art Trust. He was awarded the Royal Agricultural Society Gold Medal for Landowners, 1998. He married, 12 November 1976, Diana Caroline (b. 1946), daughter of David Blackwell of Combe (Oxon), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) <b>Nina Caroline Barbour (b. 1980)</b>, born 14 April 1980; educated at Wycombe Abbey School and Cambridge University (BA 2002; MA 2006); took over full responsibility for the management of the estate in 2013 and has led the development of new estate initiatives including the Bolesworth International Horse Show, CarFest North and Harthill Stud;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Cleo Diana Balfour (b. 1986), born 10 January 1986; educated at Cordwainers College, London; established and ran Cleo B footwear company, 2009-16; now lives in Brighton (Sussex) working as an artist and designer of fashion accessories.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He succeeded his stepfather as chairman of the Bolesworth Estate Co. Ltd. in 1989 and made strenuous efforts to develop and diversify the estate. He repaired and redecorated the castle in 1985-87 and occupied it from 1987. After his death, his widow took over as chairman of the estate company for a few years, before handing the estate over to her elder daughter in 2013.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died at Bolesworth Castle, 9 October 2007; his will was proved 25 January 2008. His widow is now living.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Sources</b></span></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Burke's Landed Gentry: the principality of Wales and the north-west</i>, 2005, p. 489; J. Brayley &amp; J. Britton, <i>The beauties of England &amp; Wales</i>, vol. 2, 1801, pp. 240-41; R.D. MacKenzie, <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/kilbarchanparish00mack/page/248">Kilbarchan: a parish history</a></i>, 1902; P. de Figueiredo &amp; J. Treuherz, <i>Cheshire country houses</i>, 1987, pp. 35-38; T. Mowl &amp; M. Mako, <i>The historic gardens of England: Cheshire</i>, 2008, pp. 117-19; C. Hartwell, M. Hyde, E. Hubbard &amp; Sir N. Pevsner, <i>The buildings of England: Cheshire</i>, 2nd edn., 2011, pp. 162-64; W. Bawn &amp; D. Barbour, <i>Bolesworth and the Barbours</i>, 2017.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Location of archives</b></span></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The family and estate papers are believed to remain in the possession of the family. Some papers relating to the Georgian house are to be found in a solicitor's collection at Cheshire Archives and Local Studies [DBC 3109].</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Coat of arms</b></span></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Argent, on a saltire gules, gutté d'eau between two garbs in pale and as many escallops in fesse, vert an escallop of the first.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Can you help?</b></span></h4><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can anyone provide any other illustrations of Bolesworth Castle before it was rebuilt in the 1820s? I would be particularly interested in any drawings or engravings earlier than the view of 1788 above.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I should be most grateful if anyone can provide photographs or portraits of people whose names appear in bold above, and who are not already illustrated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Revision and acknowledgements</b></span></h4><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This post was first published 28 February 2019.</span><br /><br /></div></div></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-5923643276506212192019-02-21T17:28:00.000+00:002019-02-28T10:44:06.347+00:00(365) Barber of Lamb Close House, baronets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Azq12H3Ftc/XGmKd29NctI/AAAAAAAAL_4/2UkLQc4U1dErBncly_FRRevbhg84alH2ACLcBGAs/s1600/Barber%2Bof%2BLambs%2BGreen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Azq12H3Ftc/XGmKd29NctI/AAAAAAAAL_4/2UkLQc4U1dErBncly_FRRevbhg84alH2ACLcBGAs/s200/Barber%2Bof%2BLambs%2BGreen.jpg" width="166" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barber of Lambs Green House</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1705, John Barber (1661-1714) from Arnold (Notts) took a lease on Castle Farm at Greasley near Eastwood (Notts) from the Earls of Essex. His interest was probably chiefly in the mineral rights, which he leased alongside the land, for in 1708 he was also leasing a coal delph from the earl at Selston (Notts) and was clearly a colliery owner. Greasley Castle Farm was, however, home to members of the family for much of the 18th century. John's early death left his young family as orphans. His eldest son, Francis Barber (1696-1782), had just turned eighteen and inherited and further developed his father's business enterprises.&nbsp; He married in 1731 and in 1753 he became the first member of the family to lease Lamb Close House (then just a small farmhouse), although it is far from clear that the Barbers maintained this lease throughout the 18th century. Francis had four sons, the eldest of whom, John Barber (1734-93) became a colliery owner in Derbyshire until he went bankrupt in about 1784. He was also an inventor, with a string of innovative patents to his credit, including the first practical prototype of a gas turbine engine. The coal mining operations in Nottinghamshire seem to have passed to Francis' youngest son, Thomas Barber (1738-1818), who lived first at Bilborough (Notts) and later in Derby. In 1787 he went into partnership with Thomas Walker of Bilborough to found the firm of Barber, Walker &amp; Co., which remained one of the most important colliery companies in the east Midlands coalfield down to the nationalisation of the industry in 1947.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Thomas Barber's wife died young in 1778, leaving him with a family of one son and three daughters. The only son, Thomas Francis Philip Hutchinson Barber (1778-1857) may have been less interested in the colliery business than his predecessors and successors, for although he was a director of the firm he did not become its chairman, a role which was taken by his brother-in-law, Richard Cheslyn (1771-1843) and later by his son, Thomas Barber (1805-74). By about 1820 T.F.P.H. Barber was the tenant of Lamb Close House, although it is not clear whether it had remained in the family continuously since his grandfather first leased it in 1753. What is clear, however, is that about the time his wife died in 1844 he gave up the lease and he seems to have moved to Germany, where he died in Wurzburg in 1857.&nbsp; Lamb Close House reverted to Lord Melbourne, who is recorded as staying in the house while inspecting his Nottinghamshire estates in 1846. He evidently new furnished the house throughout after taking it in hand, but after his death in 1848 his executors sold all the new furnishings and re-let the house to Thomas Barber (1805-74). Either he or his son, Thomas Barber (1843-93), was responsible for extending the house into the rambling building that exists today, apparently in a series of campaigns. The last phase of work may not have taken place until 1904, by which time it was in the hands of Maj. Thomas Philip Barber (1876-1961), who finally bought the freehold (with some 800 acres) in 1915.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Major T.P. Barber, who took control of Barber, Walker &amp; Co. in 1896, played an active role in modernising the firm, improving conditions for employees, and supporting the development of local facilities, so that Eastwood came increasingly to 'exhibit the hallmarks of what might be called a ‘company town'’. He combined his chairmanship with a long involvement with both the yeomanry and the County Council (of which he was a member continuously for 63 years). He saw active service in both the Boer War and the First World War, in which he was wounded three times and awarded the DSO. At the end of his life he became one of the last men to be awarded an hereditary baronetcy before the practice of awarding hereditary honours was suspended in 1964. His eldest son, Thomas Cecil Barber (1903-30), who qualified as a mining engineer and was destined to take over the company from his father, was killed in a motoring accident soon after his marriage, so the baronetcy passed in 1961 to his younger son, Sir William Francis Barber (1905-95), 2nd bt. The nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947 and its gradual closure since the 1980s have finally separated the family from their long mining heritage. When Sir William died, Lamb Close House passed to his widow, Jean Marie, Lady Barber, and his son and successor, Sir David Barber (b. 1937) has made his home in Berkshire. Lamb Close House seems now to be occupied by Lady Barber's son by her first marriage.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Two other things are notable about this family. The first is that the novelist, D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was the son and grandson of Barber Walker company employees and grew up in a company house in Eastwood. Lamb Close House appears under different names in several of his novels, and so does its owner, Major T.P. Barber, with whom the novelist appears to have had a distant and somewhat antagonist acquaintance. Ironically, the former Barber Walker company offices in Mansfield Road (now Durban House) were briefly used as a Lawrence heritage centre (closed in 2016). What strikes me most about this family, however, is how many times it has been struck by tragedy. From the suicide of Anne Cheslyn (née Barber) in 1820, to the accidental deaths of two of Thomas Barber's children in 1890 and 1892, to the deaths in motor accidents of both Major T.P. Barber's eldest son and his widow, the family has been remarkably unfortunate.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Lamb Close House, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire</span></b></h3><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QwP6kUI7Fec/XGmTx2NGjAI/AAAAAAAAMAE/y1sOltWE27Uwp-eUQOimvCuKkN_n01xggCLcBGAs/s1600/Lamb%2BClose%2BHouse%252C%2BEastwood%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="943" data-original-width="1600" height="376" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QwP6kUI7Fec/XGmTx2NGjAI/AAAAAAAAMAE/y1sOltWE27Uwp-eUQOimvCuKkN_n01xggCLcBGAs/s640/Lamb%2BClose%2BHouse%252C%2BEastwood%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Lamb Close House, Eastwood: a photograph of c.1900 showing it before later additions to both the north and south. The three bays on the left may represent the earliest part of the building.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">A rambling and irregular two storey house which evidently has a very complex building history. It is said to have begun as an early 18th century farmhouse which was acquired by the Lamb family of Melbourne Hall (Derbys) as a shooting box and let from 1753 to the Barbers. They remained the tenants, albeit with one certain short break in the 1840s and possibly with a longer one around 1800, until 1915, when they bought the freehold. The earliest photograph known of the house, showing the property before the most recent additions, suggests that the core of the present building may have been a two storey three-bay house which now forms bays two to four of the eight-bay entrance front. This could well be&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">early 19th century</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;rather than earlier; the big hipped roof with wide oversailing eaves is likely to be rather later, and the bay windows (one square and one canted) on the entrance front are apparently later 19th century. The five-bay south front seems to be late 19th century, though it looks rather earlier, and beyond this there is an iron-framed conservatory of the same date. At the back of the house is a ten-bay west-facing service range of the mid 19th century. There are drawings for proposed alterations and additions by Royle &amp; Elder of Nottingham in 1904 in the Nottinghamshire Archives. The building history of the house would merit further investigation.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The house is said to feature under different names in several of the novels of D.H. Lawrence, who was born in Eastwood, and may be identifiable with 'Wragby Hall' in <i>Lady Chatterley's Lover</i>, which Lawrence described as</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"> "a long low old house in brown stone, begun about the middle of the 18th century, and added on to, till it was a warren of a place without much distinction".</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: sold to Sir Matthew Lamb (1705-68), 1st bt.; to son, Sir Peniston Lamb (1745-1828), 2nd bt. and 1st Viscount Melbourne; to son, William Lamb (1779-1848), 2nd Viscount Melbourne; to brother, Frederick James Lamb (1782-1853), 3rd Viscount Melbourne; to sister Emily (1787-1869), widow of 5th Earl Cowper and wife of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), 3rd Viscount Palmerston; to great-nephew, Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper (1834-1905), 7th Earl Cowper; to widow, whose executors sold 1915 to Sir Thomas Philip Barber (1876-1961), 1st bt.; to son, Sir William Francis Barber (1905-95), 2nd bt.; to widow, Jean, Lady Barber (fl. 2003); to son, Sir Thomas David Barber (b. 1937), 3rd bt. The house was let to the Barber family from 1753 and possibly after a break c.1820-44 and again from c.1849 onwards until they bought the freehold.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Barber family of Lamb Close House, baronets</span></b></h3><br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nRUQu8psq7I/XG2KmETEicI/AAAAAAAAMA8/8aEYMFI1xBA85C4YhnnjvJU0kf20u9K0wCLcBGAs/s1600/Barber%252C%2BFrancis%2B1696-1782.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="356" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nRUQu8psq7I/XG2KmETEicI/AAAAAAAAMA8/8aEYMFI1xBA85C4YhnnjvJU0kf20u9K0wCLcBGAs/s200/Barber%252C%2BFrancis%2B1696-1782.jpg" width="155" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francis Barber (1696-1782)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barber, Francis (1696-1782). </b>Eldest son of John Barber (1661-1714) of Arnold (Notts) and his wife Sarah (d. 1710), born 1696. Colliery owner and farmer. He married, 13 October 1731 at Greasley, Elizabeth (c.1710-87), daughter of John Fletcher of Heanor (Derbys), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Sarah Barber (1732-69), baptised at Greasley, 15 June 1732; married, 18 September 1760 at Greasley, William Raynor (d. 1784), and had issue three sons; died 11 April 1769 and was buried at Greasley;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Elizabeth Barber (1733-45), baptised at Greasley, 4 November 1733; died young, 7 January 1744/5 and was buried at Greasley;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) John Barber (1734-93), baptised at Greasley, 22 October 1734; coal owner at Heanor and Langley (Derbys) and inventor, whose patents related to smelting, improvements in steam engines, and the first model of a gas turbine (1791); became bankrupt in 1784 and was eventually obliged to sell most of his property in 1789-90; lived at Stainsby House (Derbys) before his bankruptcy, and later at Attleborough (Warks); married Martha, eldest daughter of John Goodwin of Monyash;&nbsp;died 17 June 1793 and was buried at Monyash, where he is commemorated a monument erected by his widow;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Francis Barber (1735-95), baptised at Greasley, 21 December 1735; probably died unmarried; buried at Greasley, 22 January 1795;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Robert Barber (1737-1820), baptised 2 February 1736/7; died 3 August 1820 and was buried at Worksop Priory (Notts);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Thomas Barber (1738-1818) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) Mary Barber (1739-40), baptised at Greasley, 2 September 1739; died in infancy, 14 January 1739/40 and was buried at Greasley;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(8) Mary Barber (b. 1741), baptised at Greasley, 11 February 1740/1; married, 12 January 1764 at Greasley, John Bennett;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(9) Anne Barber (1743-86?), baptised at Greasley, 8 October 1743; married, 24 January 1769 at Greasley, William Bilbie of Mansfield (Notts), and had issue; possibly the woman of this name buried at Sutton-cum-Lound (Notts), 24 August 1786.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He leased Lamb Close from the Lamb family in 1753.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He was buried at Bilborough, 18 June 1782; his will was proved 9 July 1782. His widow died in 1787.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JGDTCh_NRlg/XG2J-W8mzgI/AAAAAAAAMA0/BMHCi9wfPcMbkNti3DHlKk9oK7ZlRPs-wCLcBGAs/s1600/Barber%252C%2BThomas%2B1738-1818.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="363" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JGDTCh_NRlg/XG2J-W8mzgI/AAAAAAAAMA0/BMHCi9wfPcMbkNti3DHlKk9oK7ZlRPs-wCLcBGAs/s200/Barber%252C%2BThomas%2B1738-1818.jpg" width="158" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Thomas Barber (1738-1818)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barber, Thomas (1738-1818). </b>Youngest son of Francis Barber (1696-1782) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Fletcher, born at Greasley Castle Farm (Notts) and baptised at Greasley, 11 June 1738. Colliery owner; founded Barber, Walker &amp; Co. with Thomas Walker of Bilborough (Notts) in 1787. He married, 12 September 1765 at Gt. Wilne (Derbys), Sophia (1737-78), daughter of Philip Hutchinson, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Ruth Eliza Barber (1766-1841), born 1 August and baptised at Bilborough (Notts), 2 August 1766; married, 15 September 1803 at Diseworth (Leics), John Bourne (1772-1841) of Eastwood (Notts), and had issue one son and one daughter; died 11 March 1841;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Sophia Barber (1768-70), baptised at Bilborough, 29 May 1768; died in infancy and was buried at Greasley, 17 January 1770;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Anne Barber (1769-1823), baptised at Bilborough, 6 September 1769; married, 15 January 1794 at St Werburgh, Derby, Richard Cheslyn (1771-1843) of Langley Priory (Leics), later chairman of Barber Walker &amp; Co., colliery proprietors, and had issue; committed suicide by drowning herself in a fishpond at Langley Priory, 10 August 1823;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) John Barber (1772-73), baptised at Bilborough, 19 November 1772; died in infancy and was buried at Bilborough, 10 January 1773;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Sophia Barber (1774-1860), baptised at Bilborough, 23 October 1774;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, 18 December 1797 at St Werburgh, Derby, Hugh Campbell (1772-1824), and had issue four sons and three daughters; died at Nottingham, 20 January 1860; will proved 14 February 1860 (effects under £200);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Thomas Francis Philip Hutchinson Barber (1778-1857) (</span><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">q.v.</i><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Bilborough and later in Friar Gate, Derby.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died in Derby, 28 June 1818. His wife was buried at Bilborough, 17 July 1778.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barber, Thomas Francis Philip Hutchinson (1778-1857). </b>Only son of Thomas Barber (1738-1818) and his wife Sophia, daughter of Philip Hutchinson, baptised at St Werburgh, Derby, 17 April 1778. Colliery proprietor and director of Barber, Walker &amp; Co.; director of the Midland Counties Railway from 1834. He married</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, 21 June 1802 at Greasley,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;Hannah Jackson (c.1785-1844) and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Anne Barber (1803-24), baptised at Greasley, 18 June 1803; married, 4 June 1822 at Greasley, George Robinson RN of Nottingham; buried at Mansfield, 10 March 1824;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2)&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Thomas Barber (1805-74) (</span><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">q.v.</i><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Eliza Barber (1809-45), baptised at Greasley, 2 September 1809; married, 15 May 1838 at Bulwell Registry Office, Francis Read Grammar (1812-68) of Greasley Castle Farm, and had issue one daughter; died at Langton Hall, 26 January 1845, and was buried at Greasley.</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He leased Lamb Close House, Eastwood from c.1820, but seems to have given up the lease about the time his wife died, and perhaps then retired and moved to Germany.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died at Wurzburg (Germany), 3 April 1857. His wife died 2 March 1844.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barber, Thomas (1805-74). </b>Only son of Thomas Francis Philip Hutchinson Barber (1778-1857) and his wife Hannah Jackson, born 10 December and baptised at Greasley, 28 December 1805. Educated at Eton, Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1825; BA 1829; MA 1832) and Middle Temple (admitted 1829). Colliery proprietor; chairman of Barber Walker &amp; Co. He married 1st, 2 March 1843 at Basford (Notts) Registry Office, Hannah Argile (1822-49), daughter of Eli Coates of Ilkeston (Derbys), and 2nd, 16 December 1852 at Trinity church, Derby, Elizabeth (1811-85), daughter of John Lewis Pasteur, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Thomas Barber (1843-93) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) George Barber (1845-1916), born Jan-Mar 1845; farmer; married,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">23 July 1868 at St James Piccadilly, Westminster (Middx), Emily (1846-1922), youngest daughter of George Hickman Bond of Bagnall (Notts), but had no issue; died 21 May 1916; will proved 6 July 1916 (estate £2,914);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.3) Hannah Grace Argyll Barber (1846-1925), born 13 September 1846; married, Oct-Dec 1872, Duncan Macdonald Forbes MD (1837-1912), physician and surgeon to Barber Walker &amp; Co. and medical officer of health to Eastwood Urban District Council, but had no issue; died 6 March 1925; will proved 1 September 1925 (estate £8,239);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.4) Robert Barber (1848-1929); educated at Uppingham School and Jesus College, Cambridge; articled clerk to Walter Browne of Nottingham, whom he succeeded in practice on being admitted a solicitor in 1874; later senior partner in Robert Barber &amp; Sons; member of Nottinghamshire County Council; married, 18 August 1874 at Old Warden (Beds), Elizabeth Catherine (1856-1922), daughter of Rev. John Gerrard Andrews Baker, and had issue four sons and three daughters; died 11 March 1929;&nbsp; will proved 17 September 1929 (estate £31,968);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1)&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(John) Lewis Pasteur Barber (1853-1906), born 19 November 1853; JP for Derbyshire (chairman of Swadlincote petty sessions); alderman of Derbyshire County Council; chairman of Burton-on-Trent Board of Guardians; noted supporter of religious and philanthropic causes; married 1st, 22 September 1880, Helen Gertrude (1859-88), daughter of Paul Belcher of Burton-on-Trent, and had issue three sons and two daughters; married 2nd, Jul-Sep 1892, Mary Wardle and had issue four daughters; died at his home, Trent Cottage, Burton-on-Trent (Staffs), 3 December 1906; will proved 21 March 1907 (estate £18,368).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He leased Lamb Close House, Eastwood from about 1850.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 19 January 1874; his will was proved 21 March 1874 (effects under £160,000). His first wife died 27 September 1849. His widow died at South Bank, Stapenhill, Burton-on-Trent, 24 June 1885; her will was proved 24 August 1885 (effects £11,076).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/---ix0NwyIiQ/XGw5GBG59lI/AAAAAAAAMAc/2u1ZrvYBmFoF4PRXdtZc9gIX1DBlf-FRgCLcBGAs/s1600/Barber%252C%2BThomas%2B1843-93.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="294" height="200" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/---ix0NwyIiQ/XGw5GBG59lI/AAAAAAAAMAc/2u1ZrvYBmFoF4PRXdtZc9gIX1DBlf-FRgCLcBGAs/s200/Barber%252C%2BThomas%2B1843-93.jpg" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Thomas Barber (1843-93)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barber, Thomas (1843-93). </b>Second son of Thomas Barber (1805-74) and his first wife, Hannah Coates, born 28 December 1843. Colliery proprietor.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">JP for Nottinghamshire.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He was a Conservative in politics, but took no part in public affairs. He married 1st, 23 July 1868 at St James Piccadilly, Westminster (Middx), Lavinia Bertha (1844-70), third daughter of George Hickman Bond of Bagnall (Notts) and 2nd, 6 August 1873 at Ottawa (Canada), Frances Harriet Anne (c.1849-1930), daughter of William Prosperous Spragge of Sherborne Grange, Ottawa, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1) Gwendolen Barber (1874-1957), born 19 September 1874; married, 8 October 1896 at Eastwood, Rev. Ernest Clapin Wilson (1869-1951), second son of William Wilson of Bank House, Alfreton (Derbys), and had issue two sons; died 21 January 1957; will proved 8 July 1957 (estate £26,279);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.2) Sir (Thomas) Philip Barber (1876-1961), 1st bt. (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.3) Kenneth Forbes Barber (1877-90), born 14 September 1877; accidentally shot and killed by his elder brother, 23 April 1890;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.4) Grace Barber (1879-1955), born 10 November 1879; educated at Cheltenham Ladies College; served in 1st British Field Hospital for Serbia in First World War; JP for Nottinghamshire (from 1934); lived at Barnby Moor House (Notts); died unmarried, 12 February 1955; will proved 2 September 1955 (estate £20,659);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.5) Col. William Douglas Barber (1881-1971), born 17 October 1881; educated at Eton; an officer in the army, 1901-37 (Col. 1923; retired 1937); awarded MC 1915; JP for Nottinghamshire (from 1939); married 1st, August 1914 (div. 1935), Dorothy (1888-1949), daughter of E.F. Bourke of Pretoria (South Africa), and had issue one son; married 2nd, 1937, Mary Catherine (1893-1976), daughter of William Bain of Edinburgh and widow of Charles Francis Darley of Thorne (Yorks) and Ranby Hall (Notts), but had no issue; died at Ranby Hall, 26 April 1971; will proved 22 July 1971 (estate £51,421);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.6) Rosamond Alice Barber (1883-1968), born 11 August 1883; married, c.1908, (James Gerald) Guy Mellor (1882-1950), manager of wallpaper factory, and had issue one son and two daughters; lived latterly at Knippoch by Oban (Argylls); died 26 January 1968; will confirmed in Scotland and sealed in London, 17 February 1969;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.7) Cecily Frances Barber (1886-92), born 13 April 1886; drowned (with an older boy who tried to save her) in a boating accident on Moorgreen reservoir, 12 August 1892;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.8) Lt-Col. Norman Elsdale Barber (1888-1951), born 22 February 1888; mining engineer and managing director of a mining supply company; served in First World War with Kings Royal Rifle Corps (Maj.) and subsequently with Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Lt-Col.; retired 1929); lived at Bawtry (Yorks WR); died unmarried, 16 June 1951; will proved 31 October 1951 (estate £21,725).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Coker House, Eastwood and later at Lamb Close House.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 8 December 1893; his will was proved in 1894 (effects £157,757). His first wife died 2 February 1870. His widow died at Knippoch by Oban (Argylls), 11 May 1930 and was buried at Greasley.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nnVXWSULFAw/XG0eW86WKiI/AAAAAAAAMAo/nrMkxBoIy-A05UrwusTP3LC0tC-qOVIlACLcBGAs/s1600/Barber%252C%2BSir%2BPhilip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="150" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nnVXWSULFAw/XG0eW86WKiI/AAAAAAAAMAo/nrMkxBoIy-A05UrwusTP3LC0tC-qOVIlACLcBGAs/s200/Barber%252C%2BSir%2BPhilip.jpg" width="173" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sir Philip Barber, 1st bt.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barber, Sir (Thomas) Philip (1876-1961), 1st bt. </b>Eldest son of Thomas Barber (1843-93) and his second wife Frances Harriet Anne, daughter of William Prosperous Spragge of Ottawa (Canada), born 6 January 1876. Accidentally shot and killed his younger brother, 1890. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1894; BA 1897). Colliery owner; chairman of Barber Walker &amp; Co. mining company, c.1920-47; Member of the Institute of Mining Engineers by 1910. He served with the Imperial Yeomanry in Boer War, 1900-01 (mentioned in despatches) and also in First World War (thrice wounded, losing a hand; twice mentioned in despatches; DSO 1918). A member of Nottinghamshire County Council, 1898-1961 (County Alderman, 1925-61; Chairman, 1931-45); JP (from 1902) and DL (from 1918) for Nottinghamshire; High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, 1907. Hon. Col. of South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry, 1944-56. Pro-Chancellor, Nottingham University, 1949-61 (Hon. LLD, 1955). He was created a baronet, 25 July 1960. He married, 17 April 1902 at St Peter, Cranley Gardens, Kensington (Middx), Beatrice Mary (1877-1962), daughter of Lt-Col. William Ingersoll Merritt of Earl's Court, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Thomas Cecil Barber (1903-30), born 9 February 1903; educated at Eton; mining engineer; lived at Ranskill House (Notts); played rugby for Nottinghamshire; married, 28 November 1928 at St Peter, Eaton Square, London, Joyce Mary (who m2, 18 September 1933 (div. 1948), Col. John Sidney North FitzGerald (d. 1976), son of Francis FitzGerald of Wroxton (Oxon) and m3, 20 May 1948, Lt-Col. Arthur Frederick Reginald Wiggins (d. 1961)), daughter of Dr. Edward Hedley of The Cottage, Thursley (Surrey) and had issue one daughter; died following a motor accident, 10 January 1930 and was buried at Greasley; will proved 28 March 1930 (estate £4,478);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Sir William Francis Barber (1905-95), 2nd bt. (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Joan Barber (1907-95), born 7 May 1907; married, 25 January 1934 at Greasley, Canon Sydney John Galloway (1886-1969), vicar of Greasley, son of Rev. Edward Dale Galloway, but had no issue; died 4 January 1995; will proved 14 March 1995 (estate £2,940,281);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Beatrice Naomi Barber (1911-2002), born 27 April 1911; married, 5 December 1939 at Greasley (Notts), F/Lt. Charles Robert David Stewart (1917-40), who died on active service in Norway, but had no issue; died aged 91 on 25 October 2002; will proved 21 February 2003;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Honor Barber (1914-2008), born 21 May 1914; married, 8 February 1947, Cdr. Noel Hunt (1906-74); died aged 93 on 9 January 2008; will proved 3 July 2008.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He leased Lamb Close House, Eastwood until 1915, when he bought the freehold, with 800 acres from the executors of Lady Cowper.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 11 July and was cremated 13 July 1961; his will was proved 23 November 1961 (estate £503,040). His widow died in a car crash, 12 November 1962; her will was proved 25 February 1965 (estate £63,773).</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barber, Sir William Francis (1905-95), 2nd bt. </b>Only surviving son of Sir (Thomas) Philip Barber (1876-1961), 1st bt., and his wife Beatrice Mary, daughter of Lt-Col. William Ingersoll Merritt of St Catherine's, Ontario (Canada), born 20 November 1905. Educated at Eton. An officer in the South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry (Maj.; Lt. Col, 1947) and was Hon. Col. of that regiment, 1961-66; he served in the Second World War and was a prisoner of war in Italy, 1942-44. High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, 1964-65. He succeeded his father as 2nd baronet, 11 July 1961. He married 1st, 28 October 1936 (div. 1978) Diana Constance (d. 1984), daughter of Lt-Col. Thomas Lloyd of Minard (Argylls.) and 2nd, Apr-Jun 1978, Jean Marie, widow of Dr. Harry Carew Nott of Adelaide (Australia), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Sir (Thomas) David Barber (b. 1937), 3rd bt. (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.2) Diana Mary Barber (1939-2017), born 20 September 1939; married, 6 March 1965 (div. 1991), Nicholas Bache Barlow Davie-Thornhill (b. 1936), elder son of Humphrey Bache Christopher Davie-Thornhill of Stanton Hall, Matlock (Derbys) and had issue two sons; lived latterly at Hinderclay Hall (Norfk); died 4 December 2017; will proved 17 August 2018.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Lamb Clay House, Eastwood from his father in 1961. At his death it passed to his widow.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 1 April 1995; his will was proved 5 July 1995 (estate £6,854,007). His first wife died 19 September 1984; her will was proved 19 November 1984 (estate £851,228). His widow was living in 2003.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Barber, Sir (Thomas) David (b. 1937), 3rd bt. </b>Only son of Sir William Francis Barber (1905-95), 2nd bt., and his first wife, Diana Constance, daughter of Lt-Col. Thomas Lloyd of Minard (Argylls.), born 18 November 1937. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1961; MA 1966). An officer with South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry (Lt.) and Royal Artillery (Lt., 1957-58). He succeeded his father as 3rd baronet, 1 April 1995. He married 1st, 15 May 1972 (div. 1975), Amanda Mary (who m3, Jeremy Edwards of Battersea (London)), daughter of Frank Rabone of Beacon Barn Farm, Coton, Milwich (Staffs) and widow of Maj. Michael Healing (1936-70), and 2nd, 1978, Jeannine Mary (b. 1943), daughter of Capt. Timothy John Gurney of Buntingford (Herts) and formerly wife of John Richard Boyle, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Thomas Edward Barber (b. 1973), born 14 March 1973; educated at Eton and St Aidan's College, Durham (BA 1994); runs a luxury travel agency; lives in Kings Lynn (Norfk); married, 25 September 2004 at West Raynham (Norfk), Davina Alice (b. 1978), daughter of Anthony Nicholas George Duckworth-Chad of Pynkney Hall (Norfk.), and has issue one son and three daughters;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.1) Sarah Emily Barber (b. 1981), born 19 June 1981; educated at North Foreland Lodge; Edinburgh University and Imperial College, London (MSc 2006);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2.2) William Samuel Timothy Barber (b. 1982), born 23 September 1982; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Dublin (BA 2006).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Windrush House, Inkpen (Berks) and later near Marlborough (Wilts).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Now living.&nbsp;</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sources</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Burke's Peerage &amp; Baronetage</i>, 2003, pp. 248-49;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.greasleypc.co.uk/lost-village-project/lost-village-greasley.pdf">https://www.greasleypc.co.uk/lost-village-project/lost-village-greasley.pdf</a>;&nbsp; <a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/research/the-physical-landscape-legacy-phase-2-the-heritage-of-the-nottinghamshire-coalfield/">https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/research/the-physical-landscape-legacy-phase-2-the-heritage-of-the-nottinghamshire-coalfield/</a>.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Location of archives</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b style="font-style: italic;">Barber Walker &amp; Co. Ltd., coal miners:</b>&nbsp;correspondence and papers; wages book, 19th cent.-1947 [Nottinghamshire Archives, NCB5; 8218]; compensation registers, Bentley Colliery, 1907-46 [Sheffield Archives, COAL/BWC]</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Records relating to Lamb Close House before c.1916 will be found among the papers of the Melbourne Hall Estate at Nottinghamshire Archives [157 DD/LM].</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Some papers are likely to remain in the possession of the family.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Coat of arms</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Ermine, two chevronels between three fleurs-de-lys gules, a bordure embattled also gules.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can you help?</span></b></h4><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Does anyone know more about the occupation of Lamb Close house in the late 18th and early 19th centuries? It is far from clear whether the Barbers occupied it continuously or not.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I would like to understand the development of the house from 18th century farmhouse to 20th century mansion more clearly. Does anyone know more about the building sequence, and has anyone examined the plans of proposed alterations to Lamb Close House in Nottinghamshire Archives </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(</span>DD/LM/50/9/1-34), and if so, can they comment on the nature of the proposals and whether they were carried out?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I should be most grateful if anyone can provide photographs or portraits of people whose names appear in bold above, and who are not already illustrated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Revision and acknowledgements</span></b></h4></div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This post was first published 21 February 2019.</span><br /><br /></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-42551527778905420732019-02-13T14:28:00.000+00:002019-02-13T14:44:31.135+00:00(364) Bannerman and Campbell-Bannerman of Wyastone Leys, Hunton Court and Belmont Castle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uf3Tio-Sl2c/XGL-XF7ACBI/AAAAAAAAL-4/wvmIpWPyLkgoebdTonXINwwySEt7opAzACLcBGAs/s1600/Campbell-Bannerman%2Bof%2BBelmont%2BCastle.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="495" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uf3Tio-Sl2c/XGL-XF7ACBI/AAAAAAAAL-4/wvmIpWPyLkgoebdTonXINwwySEt7opAzACLcBGAs/s200/Campbell-Bannerman%2Bof%2BBelmont%2BCastle.png" width="165" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Campbell-Bannerman <br />of Belmont Castle</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lkY6LgJysq4/XGL-K1ZUkzI/AAAAAAAAL-0/oju3XAEk-G4FnCqae-yOv4BmGhzA6uYTgCLcBGAs/s1600/Bannerman%2Bof%2BHunton%2BCourt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lkY6LgJysq4/XGL-K1ZUkzI/AAAAAAAAL-0/oju3XAEk-G4FnCqae-yOv4BmGhzA6uYTgCLcBGAs/s200/Bannerman%2Bof%2BHunton%2BCourt.jpg" width="166" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Bannerman of Hunton Court</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The Bannermans were a farming family from Perthshire who had an eye to commercial opportunities. William Bannerman (1732-1812) diversified from farming into distilling, and his son Henry Bannerman (1753-1823) did not fail to observe the rapid growth of the cotton industry in and around Manchester.&nbsp; In about 1806 he sent his son David Bannerman (1785-1829) to set up a small warehouse operation in the city on an experimental basis, and finding after a couple of years that this was profitable, he determined to move south for a radical change of career. Most of his family went with him, although his eldest son remained in Scotland to farm and his two eldest daughters, who were already married, also stayed behind.&nbsp;Within a month he had rented a warehouse, and established a company with the name of Henry Bannerman &amp; Sons, although initially his only partner seems to have been David, with the younger sons, Alexander, John, Henry and Andrew joining the firm as they became old enough. The new enterprise began trading in cotton, calicoes, muslins and plain fabrics, and soon diversified into manufacturing cotton goods.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">When Henry died in 1823, he was succeeded as head of the firm by David, who managed the business until he died six years later. By the late 1820s the family were sufficiently well-established in commercial circles for David to be chosen as boroughreeve (the leading municipal officer) for 1828-29.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">After David's death, the business was continued by his younger brothers.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Bannermans was by this time prospering and in the late 1830s the company moved to a huge warehouse in York Street which was right in the centre of the Manchester cotton trade. They also had four cotton mills in the Manchester area : Brunswick Mill in Ancoats, Old Hall Mill in Dukinfield and the North End Mill and River Meadow Mill, both in Stalybridge.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Of the four remaining sons of the founder, Andrew died in 1839 and Alexander in 1846, and in 1844 David's two sons were brought into the business. Henry Bannerman junior (1798-1871) retired in 1850 and moved to Kent, where he had invested his profits in the Hunton Court estate in the hop-growing district around Maidstone and extensively remodelled the house. A few years later, the last of the brothers, John Bannerman (1795-1870) made a similar move, buying Wyastone Leys in Herefordshire and largely rebuilding it to designs of William Burn and his assistant John MacVicar Anderson.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In the middle years of the 19th century the firm was run by David's son, James Alexander Bannerman (1821-1906), with his cousin William Young (whose mother had been a Bannerman). Young's daughter Marion married one of the managers in the business, Sir Charles Wright Macara (1845-1929), 1st bt., and he became the Chairman of the firm in 1880, and redirected its production into goods such as curtains, quilts, sheets, blankets and calicoes. Macara - whose baronetcy was a reward for his remarkable charitable work with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution - remained the chairman until his death, by which time the Lancashire cotton industry was dying. The First World War had made it difficult to import the vast quantities of raw cotton that had sustained the industry, and the Government had encouraged colonial administrations to build their own mills, which subsequently competed very effectively with the Lancashire industry. In 1929 the Bank of England was sufficiently concerned about the state of the industry to set up the Lancashire Cotton Corporation to co-ordinate the rescue of the industry, and Bannermans' mills were all taken over a few years later (and subsequently acquired by Courtaulds in 1964, who closed them in 1967), although the firm continued trading, latterly as Banner Textiles, until comparatively recently.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">John Bannerman (1795-1870) left Wyastone Leys to his son, James Murray Bannerman (1846-1915), who also became a director of the family firm. Although he initially seems to have lived at Wyastone, he seems not to have been fond of the house, as he rented other houses (notably Bishopswood in Gloucestershire and Llwyn Onn Hall in Denbighshire) which he occupied instead. He died during the First World War when the Lancashire cotton industry had been plunged into crisis, and his executors sold Wyastone Leys in about 1918. His eldest son, Lt-Col. John Arthur Murray Bannerman (1881-1953) became a career soldier and had no involvement with the family firm, although his elder son, Alistair John Murray Bannerman (1914-2009) worked there in the 1950s and 1960s in a more prosaic interlude between his early career as an actor and his later work as the first National Events Officer for the National Trust. Colonel Bannerman's younger brother, Ronald Bannerman (1882-1958), was however chairman of the company in succession to Sir Charles Macara.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Henry Bannerman (1798-1871), who lived at Hunton Court in Kent from 1850 onwards, left that property to his wife for life, and then to his nephew, Henry Campbell, on condition that the latter took the additional name of Bannerman, a condition with which he reluctantly complied in 1872. Henry Campbell was the son of Sir James Campbell, kt., a Glasgow merchant and Lord Provost, and his wife Janet, who was one of the daughters of the first Henry Bannerman. By the time he received his legacy he had embarked on a political career which culminated in his leadership of the Liberal Party, 1899-1908, and his appointment as Prime Minister, 1905-08. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JIpP2yioNHk/XGO_0lyWdGI/AAAAAAAAL_U/jRhXy3j3Aiw6kf9XabILYYgbdMuaWkrWgCLcBGAs/s1600/Gennings%252C%2BHunton%252C%2BKent%2B1%2BMARooker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="926" height="287" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JIpP2yioNHk/XGO_0lyWdGI/AAAAAAAAL_U/jRhXy3j3Aiw6kf9XabILYYgbdMuaWkrWgCLcBGAs/s400/Gennings%252C%2BHunton%252C%2BKent%2B1%2BMARooker.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gennings Park: the house as painted by M.A. Rooker, 1776.</td></tr></tbody></table>He did not gain possession of Hunton Court until his aunt died in 1894, and in the meantime he seems to have bought another house close by, Gennings Park. which he used as an occasional residence between 1872 and 1888. He had always wanted a Scottish country seat, however, and in 1885 he invested much of his capital in buying 800 acres in Perthshire and the burned-out shell of a house called Belmont Castle, which he laid out a further £20,000 in restoring. Belmont became his favoured residence, and coupled with his busy life in London and regular annual forays to Europe (he and his wife liked to spend a month or six weeks at Marienbad and then to visit Paris), this may explain why he first rented and then sold Gennings Park before he gained possession of Hunton Court.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">When Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman died in April 1908, a few days after leaving office as Prime Minister and while he was still living at 10 Downing St., he left his Scottish estate to a Campbell relative who was still a minor, and his Kentish estate to his first cousin once removed, James Campbell Bannerman (1857-1934). The Scottish property was quickly sold to Sir James Caird (1837-1916), 1st bt., the Dundee jute magnate, and in 1918 was presented by the latter's widowed sister to Dundee City Council. The house became a care home in 1931 and is currently empty and rather tragically unloved. Hunton Court, by contrast, continued to be occupied by the descendants of James Campbell Bannerman until 2008, when it was sold after the death of Capt. Michael Campbell Devas (1924-2007).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Wyastone Leys, Ganarew, Herefordshire</span></b></span></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The first house on this site on the borders of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire (and thus of England and Wales) seems to have been built c.1795 for S.O. Attley, who had a fairly small property here. It was bought before 1817 by Richard Blakemore MP, ironmaster and partner of John Partridge, who built a country house nearby (Bishopswood in Gloucestershire) to the designs of Sir Jeffrey Wyatville at the same time as Blakemore remodelled and enlarged this house in the 1820s. It is therefore tempting to suggest that Wyatville might have been Blakemore's designer too, although there is no evidence to that effect and I have not found a record of the building at this time to form the basis for a stylistic judgement. <br /><br />Perhaps more important than his work on the house was Blakemore's development of the estate and the grounds. He began by diverting a highway across his land in 1817 and took advantage of the turnpiking of the Ross-Monmouth road (now A40) in 1821 which allowed him to use the old line of the public road as a new drive to the house. According to Bradney's <i>History of Monmouthshire</i>, the creation of the park and gardens also required the clearing away of many cottages and smallholdings. The 1st edition OS map of 1831 shows pleasure grounds with drives, and he planted a bank of woodland to screen the house from the new road; a walled garden had been constructed by 1835. In 1833 the common called Little Doward east of the house was enclosed and Blakemore was able to develop a 320-acre deer park on this land, which was enclosed by a wall after 1842, and stocked with deer from Llantrithyd in Glamorganshire, where the deer park ceased to be maintained when the house was abandoned. In 1872 it was reported that 'the wooded park of The Leys [is] a scene of varied beauty which cannot easily be surpassed' and this is broadly still true.</span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s7WabwdfNr0/XF1YFFqmCJI/AAAAAAAAL9U/YyY5AvAt-AscPo3D2yJr94vbVT5Hjc2IQCLcBGAs/s1600/Wyastone%2BLeys%2B1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="1600" height="462" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s7WabwdfNr0/XF1YFFqmCJI/AAAAAAAAL9U/YyY5AvAt-AscPo3D2yJr94vbVT5Hjc2IQCLcBGAs/s640/Wyastone%2BLeys%2B1.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Wyastone Leys: entrance front. Image: Martinevans123. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Some rights reserved.</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1861 the executors of Blakemore's son sold the house to John Bannerman (d. 1870), a Manchester cotton manufacturer. He extensively rebuilt it in 1861-62, as a rather dull rendered three-storey block. Although the house was designed under the name of William Burn, Paul Bradley has discovered that it was actually a collaboration between the ageing Burn and his nephew and successor in practice, John Macvicar Anderson, who may actually have played the leading role. Although the strapwork motifs above the first-floor windows, the pinnacled parapets, Jacobean shaped gables and ogee-topped turrets are all elements drawn from Burn's stylistic repertoire, they do not combine into an integrated design, and appear rather as restless and superficial decorations applied to an obstinately lumpen block. Previous commentators have suggested that the quoins, sash windows and Doric porch might be survivals from the earlier house, but Dr. Bradley's researches show that the porch is certainly, and the other details are probably all part of the Burn-Anderson rebuilding. The west-facing entrance front has a four-storey clock tower in the angle with a short projecting wing that separates the main block from the service range. The south side, facing the river, is livelier, and has a canted two-storey bay window. At the same time as the house was being altered two rather good lodges, a new stable block (converted into a business park in 1976), kennels, park-keeper's lodge and a 'belvedere' close to the River Wye were also built.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w5sa9wN4oTo/XF1YEW7oGmI/AAAAAAAAL9Q/gcrnFvLflG8NKSaEtdXqZcYoeP8oo2xrgCLcBGAs/s1600/Wyastone%2BLeys%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="799" height="478" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w5sa9wN4oTo/XF1YEW7oGmI/AAAAAAAAL9Q/gcrnFvLflG8NKSaEtdXqZcYoeP8oo2xrgCLcBGAs/s640/Wyastone%2BLeys%2B3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Wyastone Leys: the south-facing garden front, as altered by William Burn. Image: Dawnswraig. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">Some rights reserved.</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br />Wyastone Leys descended to James Murray Bannerman (1846-1913), who seems to have let the house at times after 1894. His family sold it after his death and it subsequently passed through a number of hands. During the ownership of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Brig. Robert Peel Walker (1895-1978) after the Second World War,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">the house fell into disrepair, and it was in a fairly poor condition when he put it up for sale. The purchaser, in 1975, was Nimbus Records Ltd, who were one of the first firms manufacturing CDs in the UK and needed a base for their operations. They and associated companies still own the house, which is now largely used for offices. A 550-seat music concert venue was built in the grounds in 1992.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: built c.1795 for S.O. Attley; sold to James? Meek; sold by 1817 to Richard Blakemore MP (1774-1855); to nephew, Thomas William Booker Blakemore (d. 1858); sold 1861 to John Bannerman (1795-1870); to son, James Murray Bannerman (1846-1915); sold after his death to Walter Levett (d. 1935); to widow (d. 1938); sold to Sir Alfred Edward Hickman (1885-1947), 2nd bt.; sold 1946 to Brig. Robert Peel Walker (1895-1978); sold 1975 to Nimbus Records. The house was let in the 1890s and 1900s.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Hunton Court, Kent</b></span></h3><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WjmYQM0an2s/XGF_-RF_zNI/AAAAAAAAL94/XwrcIUszZucnQ0jtNmWNAqUvgAYKyeKNwCLcBGAs/s1600/Hunton%2BCourt%2BLodge.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="485" height="474" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WjmYQM0an2s/XGF_-RF_zNI/AAAAAAAAL94/XwrcIUszZucnQ0jtNmWNAqUvgAYKyeKNwCLcBGAs/s640/Hunton%2BCourt%2BLodge.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Hunton Court: engraving of 1838 showing the house before its enlargement for Henry Bannerman.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The house is now an irregular classical building, apparently 18th and 19th century in date, but this conceals a far earlier core, with a medieval (perhaps 13th century) cellar and the three bay crown-post roof of an unusually large 14th or 15th century hall. An engraving of 1838 shows that the exterior had by then been clad in classical form, but preserved what was essentially the medieval plan, with a hall range and cross-wing at the left-hand end; the corresponding wing at the right-hand side, if it ever existed, had been demolished by that date.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yQ7AuMqA-2Q/XGGASx2jmHI/AAAAAAAAL-A/pG9TFrAsYNckwKWhG45HIU0eV6YyfdBggCLcBGAs/s1600/Hunton%2BCourt%2BLodge%2B7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="965" height="406" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yQ7AuMqA-2Q/XGGASx2jmHI/AAAAAAAAL-A/pG9TFrAsYNckwKWhG45HIU0eV6YyfdBggCLcBGAs/s640/Hunton%2BCourt%2BLodge%2B7.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Hunton Court: the house in 1960. Image: Peter Reid/Historic England.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">After the house was bought by Henry Bannerman in c.1847, it was enlarged and remodelled, with the area in the angle between the hall and cross-wing being filled in to give the house a rectangular plan. The features of the entrance front - the central pediment, the canted bay windows, and the balustraded parapet -&nbsp; are therefore of about 1848. At the same time, Bannerman refitted the interior with delicate plasterwork and painted decorative panels depicting classical scenes, foliage and flowers. The porch is probably an even later addition, as it looks late 19th century.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: Thomas Turner Alkin (d. 1846); sold after his death to Henry Bannerman (1798-1871); to widow, Mary Bannerman (d. 1894) for life and then to nephew, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908); to nephew, James Campbell Bannerman (1857-1934); to widow, Frances Louisa Campbell-Bannerman (c.1863-1938); to daughter Joan (1888-1975), wife of Geoffrey Charles Devas (1887-1971); to son, Michael Campbell Devas (1924-2007); sold 2008...</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Belmont Castle (formerly Kirkhill), Meigle, Perthshire</b></span></h3><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The house incorporates some remains of a tower house called Kirkhill of Meigle built in the 15th or 16th century for the Bishops of Dunkeld, which was a plain three or four storey square tower with shotholes. This forms the north-east corner of the harled and hipped-roofed south range, but no significant early features are now visible.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hlDBODaZQF0/XGGjwZEjuqI/AAAAAAAAL-k/3ecctHqSaQ89TzeXvPlsviCPfixxHJv1gCLcBGAs/s1600/Belmont%2BCastle%252C%2BMeigle%2B10%2BAdam%2Bscheme%2B1766.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="732" height="432" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hlDBODaZQF0/XGGjwZEjuqI/AAAAAAAAL-k/3ecctHqSaQ89TzeXvPlsviCPfixxHJv1gCLcBGAs/s640/Belmont%2BCastle%252C%2BMeigle%2B10%2BAdam%2Bscheme%2B1766.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Design by Robert Adam for a house for James Stuart-Mackenzie, 1766. This design was not executed, but Belmont Castle as built appears to be a reduced version of the design, perhaps adapted by a local mason. Image: Soane Museum&nbsp;Adam Volume 37/62.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /><br />In the mid 18th century, James Stuart-Mackenzie inherited the estate, and embarked upon an ambitious building project, erecting a “fine mansion” which he named Belmont Castle. In the process the old tower house was absorbed and probably partly demolished. The new house echoed the military origins of its predecessor by adopting the castle style developed by Robert Adam, and Adam was apparently consulted, for drawings by him dated 1766 survive in the Soane Museum for a house designed for Stuart-Mackenzie. These proposed a much larger quadrangular building than was actually built at Belmont, but there is a marked resemblance between the centre of the Adam scheme and the south front of the house as executed. It is perhaps most likely that Adam's design was given to another, more local, architect as an indication of what was wanted, rather than that Adam was personally involved any further with the project.</span> <br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2a7sF6wXrJs/XGGNLUoM3NI/AAAAAAAAL-M/5_Q-itq0akA8Pb_ClznugvTgf01kT49swCLcBGAs/s1600/Belmont%2BCastle%252C%2BMeigle%2B9%2B1783.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="883" height="462" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2a7sF6wXrJs/XGGNLUoM3NI/AAAAAAAAL-M/5_Q-itq0akA8Pb_ClznugvTgf01kT49swCLcBGAs/s640/Belmont%2BCastle%252C%2BMeigle%2B9%2B1783.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Belmont Castle: the new house erected by James Stewart Mackenzie, from an engraving on James Stobie's&nbsp;<i>Map of Perthshire &amp; Clackmannan</i>, 1783. Image: National Library of Scotland.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The house as built consisted of a two storey main range with a central three-storey section flanked by circular turrets, and with less regular wings running away behind. The date of the new house is not clear: John Gifford in his account of the house refers to 'a large addition' having been made by 1752, but the date of 1766 on the Adam drawings seems more realistic for the castle-style facade. Sadly, nothing seems to be recorded of the interior or of any subsequent alterations, except that a ballroom was added by the 2nd Lord Wharncliffe in about 1850.<br /> </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oTYoR33PfU0/XGGUwY_VktI/AAAAAAAAL-Y/akrLkL8ZSTwIYF2kGBsMPKFEpj9XNAyFQCLcBGAs/s1600/Belmont%2BCastle%252C%2BMeigle%2B6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1195" data-original-width="1600" height="478" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oTYoR33PfU0/XGGUwY_VktI/AAAAAAAAL-Y/akrLkL8ZSTwIYF2kGBsMPKFEpj9XNAyFQCLcBGAs/s640/Belmont%2BCastle%252C%2BMeigle%2B6.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Belmont Castle: the house from the south-west after rebuilding in 1885.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In 1884 a fire destroyed the south and east ranges of the house, although a large part of the west range was saved from the flames. Although the house was insured, Lord Wharncliffe decided not to rebuild it, and sold the ruined shell to Henry Campbell-Bannerman in 1885. He employed James Thomson (of Baird &amp; Thomson, Glasgow) to repair and remodel the house, and to add a sizeable embattled extension on the north, in 1885-87. These alterations removed the subtlety of the Georgian medievalising in favour of a more vigorous Baronial treatment. The centrepiece of the south front was rebuilt with a new gabled attic and candle-snuffer roofs on the circular towers; bay windows were added; the crenellated parapet was replaced with a much chunkier Victorian one, and a new Jacobean-style porch was built on the east side. The interiors are now wholly of 1885. The groin-vaulted entrance hall leads into a very large top-lit living hall, with a French-influenced fireplace. The hall in turn provides access to the principal rooms: three drawing rooms to the south, decorated in 18th century French style; a dining room to the west, with decoration in a mixture of the Jacobean and neo-classical styles; a library to the east; and a richly decorated staircase hall to the north, containing an Imperial staircase with partly-gilded cast iron balusters under a coved ceiling.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br />The house and estate were gifted to the city of Dundee in 1918 and were leased by the civic authorities to the Church of Scotland for use as an 'eventide home' in 1931. Significant alterations were undertaken for the church by Allan &amp; Friskin in 1931 to adapt it for its new use. The care home closed in 2013, and since then the house has stood empty, with the City Council rumoured to be considering selling the property.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent:&nbsp;Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, Lord Advocate to Charles II; to daughter, Agnes, wife of James Stuart (d. 1710), later 1st earl of Bute; to son, James Stuart (d. 1722/3), 2nd Earl of Bute; to younger son, Hon. James Stuart-Mackenzie (1719-1800); to nephew,&nbsp;</i></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>James Archibald Stuart-Wortley (later Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie) (1747–1818); to son, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (later Stuart-Wortley) (1776-1845), 1st Baron Wharncliffe; to son, John Stuart-Wortley (1801-55), 2nd Baron Wharncliffe; to Edward Montagu Stuart Granville Stuart-Wortley (1827-99), 3rd Baron and later 1st </i></span><i>Earl of Wharncliffe; sold 1885 to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908); to niece-in-law, Alice Eliza Campbell until his great-nephew, James Hugh Campbell should attain the age of 25; sold 1913 to Sir James Caird (1837-1916), 1st bt.; to sister, Mrs Marryat, who gifted 1918 to city of Dundee.</i><i>&nbsp;</i></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Bannerman family of Wyastone Leys</span></b></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, Henry (1753-1823</b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">). </b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Only recorded son of William Bannerman (1732-1812), farmer and distiller, and his first wife, Janet Lawson, born at Tullibardine, 5 August 1753. Farmer at Tullibardine until 1808, when he followed his son David to Manchester and became a cotton goods retailer and manufacturer (Henry Bannerman &amp; Sons) in partnership with his younger sons. He married, 21 July 1777 at St Ninian, Stirling (Stirlings), Janet Motherwell (c.1755-1830), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) William Bannerman (b. 1778), born 4 May and baptised&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">at Auchterarder (Perths.),</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;10 May&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">1778; apparently remained in Scotland as a farmer at Auchterarder;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Amelia Bannerman (b. 1779), born at Auchterarder, 17 December 1779; married, 11 December 1808 at Trinity Gask (Perths), James Young, and had issue;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Louisa Bannerman (1781-1844), born at Auchterarder, 28 September 1781; married, 19 August 1804 in Glasgow, Peter McLaren (1776-1817) of Glasgow, merchant, and had issue three sons and five daughters; said to have been buried at Dunblane (Perths), 19 June 1844;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Marianne Bannerman (b. 1783), born at Tullibardine, 15 July 1783; married, 2 March 1811 at St Paul, Perth (Perths.), William Tindal of Perth, merchant;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) David Bannerman (1785-1829), born at Tullibardine, 5 June 1785; retailer and manufacturer of cotton goods at Manchester; chairman of Henry Bannerman &amp; Sons, 1823-29; boroughreeve of Manchester, 1828-29; married, 9 June 1817 in Glasgow Mary Harrower (c.1796-1845), daughter of James Alexander, merchant, of Glasgow, and had issue three sons and three daughters (including James Alexander Bannerman, for whom see Bannerman &amp; Campbell-Bannerman of Hunton Court below); buried at Rusholme Road Cemetery, 7 December 1829; will proved 22 January 1830;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Isabella Bannerman (1787-1859), born at Tullibardine, 18 August 1787; married, 29 March 1812 at Kinnoull (Perths.), James McLaren (1775-1852), merchant in Glasgow, and had issue; died 10 December, and was buried at Pendlebury (Lancs), 16 December 1859;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) Elizabeth Bannerman (1789-1816), born at Tullibardine, 26 July 1789; married, 23 February 1814 at St John Deansgate, Manchester, John Fyffe (fl. 1835) (who m2, Sarah Sproule (c.1790-1818)), land agent to the Marquess of Abercorn, and had issue one son; died at Baronscourt (Tyrone), 6 April 1816 and was buried at Newtownstewart;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(8) Janet Bannerman (1791-1873), born at Tullibardine, 7 July 1791;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, 17 January 1822, Sir James Campbell (1790-1876) of Stracathro, Lord Provost of Glasgow, 1840-43, and had issue two sons and four daughters (including Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908), the future Prime Minister, for whom see Bannerman and Campbell-Bannerman of Hunton Court below); died 3 October 1873;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(9) Alexander Bannerman (1793-1846), born at Tullibardine, 18 June 1793; partner in Henry Bannerman &amp; Sons and the Manchester Bank; lived at Didsbury (Lancs); died 15 June and was buried at Rusholme Road Cemetery, Manchester, 20 June 1846; will proved in PCY, October 1846 (effects under £50,000);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(10) John Bannerman (1795-1870) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(11) Henry Bannerman (1798-1871) [for whom see below, Bannerman &amp; Campbell-Bannerman of Hunton Court and Belmont Castle]</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(12) Andrew Bannerman (1800-39), born at Tullibardine, 21 July 1800; partner in Henry Bannerman &amp; Sons; lived at Ramsdell House, Didsbury (Lancs); died 22 April 1839 and was buried with his parents at Rusholme Road Cemetery, Manchester; will proved 9 November 1839.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived in Tullibardine to c.1808, when he moved to Manchester.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died of dropsy, 6 June 1823 and was buried at Rusholme Road Cemetery, Manchester. His widow died 24 March 1830 and was also buried at Rusholme Road Cemetery.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, John (1795-1870). </b>Only son of Henry Bannerman (c.1753-1825) and his wife Janet Motherwell, born at Tullibardine (Perths), 3 July 1795, and baptised at Blackford (Perths). Cotton manufacturer (Henry Bannerman &amp; Sons) in Manchester; he expanded the business to the point where his obituarist described him as 'a merchant prince'. He married, 8 October 1829 at Manchester Collegiate Church (Lancs), Margaret (d. 1875), eldest daughter of James Burt of Chorlton House, Manchester, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Margaret Bannerman (1831-1901), born 15 October and baptised&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">at Scotch Presbyterian Church, St Peter's Square, Manchester,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">8 November 1831; married, 12 September 1850 at Salford Presbyteriam Church, Robert Smith of Kilcott, Godalming (Surrey) and had issue; died 28 February 1901; will proved 9 May 1901 (estate £7,236);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Henry William Bannerman (1832-38), born 12 March and baptised at&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">at Scotch Presbyterian Church, St Peter's Square, Manchester</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, 13 May 1832; died young, 24 January 1838;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Jane Bannerman (1834-1915), born 23 December 1834 and baptised at Scotch Presbyterian Church, St Peter's Square, Manchester, 11 February 1835; died unmarried at 'Cloudlands', Torquay (Devon), 10 May 1915; will proved 21 August 1915 (estate £9,810);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Marian Bannerman (1839-1931), born 3 June and baptised at Scotch Presbyterian Church, St. Peter's Square, Manchester, 3 July 1839; died unmarried aged 91 at Hove (Sussex), 16 January 1931; will proved 23 February 1931 (estate £2,280);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Isabella Bannerman (c.1842-89); married, 9 June 1870 at Ganarew, Rev. Robert William Everett (1842-85), rector of Micheltroy (Monmouth); died in Florence (Italy), 22 November 1889; will proved 28 May 1890 (effects £16,614);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Louisa Bannerman (1844-1925), born 28 February and baptised&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">at Scotch Presbyterian Church, St Peter's Square, Manchester,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">6 April 1844; lived at Plas Gwynant, Beddgelert (Caernarvons.); died unmarried, 20 September 1925; will proved 23 January 1926 (estate £21,589);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) James Murray Bannerman (1846-1915) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(87) Grace Marshall Bannerman (1849-1928), born Jul-Sep 1849; married, 7 September 1870 at Ganarew, John Hertslet Wainwright (1849-1927) of Belmont, Lee, Kent, barrister-at-law, and had issue three children; died 24 May 1928; will proved 28 June 1928 (estate £11,624).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Swinton Lodge (Lancs) and Wootton Lodge (Staffs) before purchasing Wyastone Leys (Herefs) in 1861 and remodelling the house in 1861-62.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 24 February 1870; his will was proved 22 August 1870 (effects under £120,000). His widow died 27 November 1875; her will was proved 16 February 1876 (effects under £7,000).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, James Murray (1846-1915). </b>Only son of John Bannerman (1795-1870) and his wife Margaret, eldest daughter of James Burt of Chorlton House, Manchester, born 30 September 1846. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1865; BA 1869) and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Inner Temple (admitted 1869; called 1874)</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">. A director of Henry Bannerman &amp; Sons of Altrincham (Lancs). An officer in the Royal Monmouthshire Engineer Militia (Capt); JP and DL for Monmouthshire and Herefordshire; High Sheriff of Monmouthshire, 1879. He married, 4 November 1880 at St Paul, Knightsbridge (Middx), Louisa Mary (1846-1935), daughter of Robert Wheeley of The Pentre, Abergavenny (Monmouths.), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) John Arthur Murray Bannerman (1881-1953) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Ronald Henry Wheeley Bannerman (1882-1958), born 13 December 1882; educated at Charterhouse School; Chairman of Henry Bannerman &amp; Sons Ltd.; lived at Newton House, Alderley Edge and later at Archery House, Knutsford (both Cheshire); died unmarried, 14 December 1958; will proved 9 April 1959 (estate £100,692);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Marion Grace (k/a May) Bannerman (1884-1972), born 3 April 1884; died unmarried at Hove (Sussex), 21 May 1972; will proved 10 August 1972 (estate £114,335);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Robert Walter Malcolm Bannerman (1887-1941); fruit grower at Toddington (Glos); married, 15 July 1924 (sep. by 1935) at Ross-on-Wye (Herefs), Honor Delicia (1897-1997), youngest daughter of F. J. Constable Curtis of the Manor House, Ganarew; died at Upton-on-Severn (Worcs), 11 November 1941; will proved 27 February 1942 (estate £342);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Dorothy Lilian Bannerman (1889-1978), born 5 January 1889; died unmarried at Hove, 28 October 1977; will proved 20 January 1978 (estate £119,113).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Wyastone Leys (Herefs) from his father in 1870, but seems to have preferred to live elsewhere: in 1895 he was renting Bishopswood, Ruardean (Glos) and towards the end of his life he leased Llwyn Onn Hall, Wrexham (Flints.). His executors relinquished the lease of Llwyn Onn and sold Wyastone Leys after his death.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 13 February 1915; administration of his goods (with will annexed) was granted 19 May 1915 (estate £61,677). His widow died at Hove (Sussex), 9 July 1935; her will was proved 21 October 1935 (estate 3,228).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, John Arthur Murray (1881-1953). </b>Eldest son of James Murray Bannerman (1846-1915) and his wife Louisa Mary, daughter of Robert Wheeley of The Pentre (Monmouths.), born 14 September 1881. An officer in Royal Warwickshire Regiment (2nd Lt., 1900; Lt., 1902; Capt., 1912; Maj., 1916; Lt-Col., 1926), he served in the First World War (wounded, 1916; awarded DSO, 1917); Assistant Quartermaster General, 1917. He married, 12 November 1913 at St Paul, Knightsbridge (Middx), Aline Mabel de Laune (1884-1950), daughter of David Ryrie of New South Wales (Australia), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Alastair John Murray Bannerman (1914-2009), born at Cranford Hall (Northants), 15 September 1914; educated at Wellington College and London Theatre Studio, 1935; actor in films, TV and classical theatre, 1939, 1947-49; served in Second World War with Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Capt.; prisoner of war, 1944-45); joined the family clothing business, Henry Bannerman &amp; Sons (later Banner Textiles) in Altrincham in the 1950s (retired 1969); and then worked for the National Trust&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">as National Events Organizer, 1973-84; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, Apr-Jun 1940,&nbsp;Elisabeth Mary (1915-2003), actress and dancer, only daughter of Rev. Francis William Gresley Douglas, of Salwarpe, Worcestershire, and had issue three sons; died aged 94, 6 February 2009; will proved 11 June 2009;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) David de Laune Bannerman (1917-2002), born 16 October 1917; designer; served in Royal Engineers in Second World War (Capt.); married, 29 April 1946 at St Paul, Knightsbridge (Middx), his first cousin, Sonia Isobel H. De Laune&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1920-2002)</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, daughter of Col. Bruce Ryrie of Nanyuki (Kenya), but had no issue; died 15 June 2002; will proved 2 December 2002.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived near Newbury (Berks).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died in Newbury (Berks), 10 December 1953; will proved 12 March 1954 (estate £21,117). His wife died 12 November 1950; administration of her goods was granted 28 December 1950 (estate £1,047).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman and Campbell-Bannerman of Hunton Court and Belmont Castle</b></span></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, Henry (1798-1871). </b>son of Henry Bannerman (1753-1823) and his wife Janet Motherwell</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">, born at Tullibardine, 13 June 1798. Partner in Henry Bannerman &amp; Sons until 1850, when he retired and moved to Kent to grow hops. High Sheriff of Kent, 1862-63. He married, 9 January 1834 in Glasgow, Mary (c.1807-94), daughter of John Wyld of Glasgow, banker, but had no issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He purchased Hunton Court (Kent) in about 1847 and remodelled it. At his death, he bequeathed it to his widow for life, with remainder to his nephew, Sir Henry Campbell MP, on condition that he took the additional name Bannerman.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 13 September and was buried at Hunton, 19 September 1871; will proved 14 December 1871 (effects under £120,000). His widow died 6 October 1894; her will was proved 14 August 1894 (effects £7,284).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O6vHQiR41cA/XGQpGZxV9zI/AAAAAAAAL_g/vBiCnJvuFaAgaYHIIIJwOZ_FpcA7YgUnQCLcBGAs/s1600/Campbell-Bannerman%252C%2BSir%2BHenry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="730" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O6vHQiR41cA/XGQpGZxV9zI/AAAAAAAAL_g/vBiCnJvuFaAgaYHIIIJwOZ_FpcA7YgUnQCLcBGAs/s320/Campbell-Bannerman%252C%2BSir%2BHenry.jpg" width="232" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Campbell (later Campbell-Bannerman), Sir Henry (1836-1908). </b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Younger son of Sir James Campbell (1796-1876), kt., and his wife Janet, daughter of Henry Bannerman (1753-1823) [for whom see above, under Bannerman of Wyastone Leys], born in Glasgow, 7 September 1836. Educated at Glasgow High School, and then after travelling in Europe for almost a year, at Glasgow University, 1851-53, and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1854; BA 1858; MA 1861; LLD). He joined his father's family drapery and warehousing business, becoming a director in 1860. He reluctantly took the additional name Bannerman in 1872 as a condition of receiving an inheritance from his uncle, Henry Bannerman, but hated his double-barrelled name and preferred to be called 'CB'. Although brought up in a Conservative family he was converted while at Cambridge to radical Liberal views, and he became Liberal MP for Stirling Boroughs, 1868-1908. His performance as a parliamentarian did not initially impress the House, but in Government he possessed a quiet authority and an efficiency in the dispatch of business which commended him to both his political masters and his civil servants. He was Financial Secretary to the War Office, 1871-79, 1880-82 and Secretary to the Admiralty, 1882-84, before being promoted to what was arguably the most challenging job in Government, as Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1884-85. Although he only held the appointment for seven months before the Liberal government fell, his handling of this sensitive and difficult role was the making of his career and transformed his reputation at Westminster. He supported Gladstone on Home Rule for Ireland, putting 'an end to agitation' above other political considerations. He was rewarded by being made a Cabinet minister as Secretary of State for War, 1886, 1892-95. In this role he oversaw a series of important military reforms, to achieve which he had to persuade the Queen's elderly cousin, the Duke of Cambridge, to resign as commander-in-chief.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This he succeeded in doing in 1895, but at this precise moment the opposition censured him for providing insufficient small-arms ammunition and cordite for the Army, and he was forced to resign. Lord Rosebery chose to resign as Prime Minister rather than carry on in office without Campbell-Bannerman as a colleague. In the 1890s he tried twice to become Speaker of the House of </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">Commons, believing this role would give him more time at home with his ailing wife than a ministerial post, but he could not be spared, and in 1899 he was elected Leader of the party. His first years as leader, against the background of the Conservative government's inept management of the Boer War and of tariff reform, were dominated by battles for Liberal party unity, and he eventually achieved a fragile consensus in 1904-05. He became Prime Minister in December 1905 when Balfour resigned, and immediately held a general election in which he secured a sweeping victory. A large Parliamentary majority gave Campbell-Bannerman the platform for a radical agenda, but although a number of important reform measures were successfully passed, some of his key initiatives - e.g. on Home Rule for Ireland, education, and temperance - were blocked by the House of Lords, laying the ground for his successor's emasculation of the upper house through the Parliament Act of 1911. Under the stresses of office and of his wife's illness and eventual death, his own health was failing. He suffered a series of minor heart attacks and then in November 1907 a more serious one. He struggled on for some months before being succeeded by Asquith on 4 April 1908. He was still resident in 10 Downing St. when he died two and a half weeks' later.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He was knighted (GCB) in 1895 as part of Lord Rosebery's resignation honours list, but did not survive long enough to receive the peerage which was the traditional reward of retiring senior ministers. His death was marked not only by the respect of his opponent and the affection of his&nbsp;</span>supporters, but by the intense reverence and sympathy of the general public; it is said that as his coffin was transported north for burial at Meigle, groups of railwaymen stood bare-headed at the railway side, paying silent tribute to a good man. He was a&nbsp;JP and DL for Kent and JP for Lanarkshire. He&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">had an exceptionally close relationship with his wife, whom he&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, 13 September 1860 at All Souls, Langham Place, London, (Sarah) Charlotte (1832-1906), daughter of General Sir Charles Bruce KCB, but they had no issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived chiefly in London, and travelled every year on the continent, staying at Marienbad for four to six weeks and visiting Paris. He inherited Hunton Court from his maternal uncle in 1871, subject to the life interest of the latter's widow. He seems to have bought Gennings Park nearby in about 1872 and in 1885 bought Belmont Castle, Meigle (Perthshire) with about 800 acres for £52,000 and restored it. He leased Gennings Park from 1888 and sold it to his tenant in 1890. He gained possession of Hunton Court on the death of his aunt in 1894.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died in 10 Downing St., 22 April 1908 and was buried with his wife at Meigle, 28 April 1908; his will was proved 2 November 1908 (estate £54,908, excluding Scottish real estate). His wife died at Marienbad (Germany), 30 August 1906 and was buried at Meigle; administration of her goods was granted to her husband, 28 November 1906 (effects £1,365).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, James Alexander (1821-1906). </b>Eldest son of David Bannerman (1785-1829) of Manchester and his wife Mary Harrower, daughter of James Alexander of Glasgow, merchant, born 21 July and baptised at Lloyd St. Scotch Presbyterian Church, Manchester, 20 September 1821. Cotton spinner and wholesaler; partner in Henry Bannerman &amp; Sons from 1844; director of the Consolidated Bank Ltd. from 1864 (Chairman); he retired from business after 1894. He was one of the founders of Manchester Golf Club and also took a keen interest in cricket and football. He married, 9 October 1855, at Blythswood (Lanarks.), his cousin Louisa (1833-73), daughter of Sir James Campbell, kt., and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) James Campbell Bannerman (1857-1934) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Mary Isabella Bannerman (1859-1927), born Oct-Dec 1859; married 30 January 1884 at Prestwich (Lancs), Samuel Armitage Bennett (1856-1940) of Moat Lodge, Beckenham (Kent), son of John Marsland Bennett of Manchester, and had issue two sons and three daughters; died 17 March 1927; will proved 4 June 1927 (estate £6,695).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Bent Hill, Prestwich, Manchester until his retirement in 1898, and then moved to Alderley Edge (Cheshire).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died at Alderley Edge, 28 December 1906; no will has been found for him. His wife died at Newton Abbot (Devon), 12 April 1873.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, James Campbell (1857-1934). </b>Only son of James Alexander Bannerman (1821-1906) and his wife Louisa, daughter of Sir James Campbell, kt., of Manchester, born 16 October 1857. Educated at Harrow, Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1876) and Inner Temple (admitted 1877). JP for Kent. He married, 6 November 1883 at Christ Church, Albany St., London, Frances Louisa (c.1863-1938), only daughter of Henry Joy of Dublin, esq., and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Joan Bannerman (1888-1975) (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited Hunton Court from his great-uncle, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, in 1908. At his death it passed to his daughter and her husband.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 14 November 1934; his will was proved 22 February 1935 (estate £79,233). His widow died 24 February 1938; her will was proved 16 May 1938 (estate £16,402).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, Joan Campbell (1888-1975). </b>Only child of James Campbell Bannerman (1857-1934) and his wife Frances Louisa, only daughter of Henry Joy of Dublin, esq., born 17 July amd baptised at St Mary, Bryanston Sq., London, 23 August 1888. She married, Jul-Sep 1916, Capt.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Geoffrey Charles Devas MC (1887-1971) of Hartfield, Hayes (Kent), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Anne Rachel Devas (1920-2012), born Jan-Mar 1920; married, 18 May 1946 at Hunton, William Herbrand Sackville (1921-88), 10th Earl de la Warre, and had issue two sons and one daughter; died 9 May 2012;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) <b>Capt. Michael Campbell Devas (1924-2007)</b>, born 6 June 1924; served in Second World War with Welsh Guards (Capt.); awarded MC, 1945; merchant banker and company director; a director of the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust, 1992-97; married 1st, 1952 (div., 1967), Patience Merryday, daughter of Sir Albert Gerald Stern, and had issue one son and one daughter; married 2nd, 1967, Gillian Barbara Hewitt, formerly wife of Charles Arthur Smith-Bingham (1931-2003); died 4 May 2007; will proved 7 December 2007.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>She inherited Hunton Court from her father in 1934, subject to her mother's life interest, and came into possession in 1938. At her death it passed to her son, and was sold after his death.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">She died 26 July 1975; her will was proved 2 October 1975 (estate £25,418). Her husband died 29 July 1971; his will was proved 2 November 1971 (estate £42,660).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sources</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Burke's Landed Gentry</i>, 1925, p. 75; D. Whitehead, <i>A survey of historic parks and garden in Herefordshire</i>, 2001, pp. 418-20; J. Gifford, <i>The buildings of Scotland: Perth and Kinross</i>, 2007, pp. 193-95; A. Brooks &amp; Sir N. Pevsner, <i>The buildings of England: Herefordshire</i>, 2nd edn., 2012, pp. 242-43; J. Newman, <i>The buildings of England: Kent - West and the Weald</i>, 4th edn, 2012, p. 314; ODNB entry for Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman; personal communication from Dr. Paul Bradley.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Location of archives</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry (1836-1908), kt.: </i>correspondence and papers, 1855-1908 [British </span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Library,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">Add MSS 41206-52, 52512-21]</span></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Coat of arms</span></b></h4><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-style: italic;">Campbell-Bannerman:</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span></b></span><span style="background-color: #f6eeee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Quarterly, 1st and 4th, per pale Gules and Sable a Banner displayed bendways Argent thereon a Canton Azure charged with a Saltire of the Third (for Bannerman); 2nd and 3rd, Gyronny of eight Or and Sable on a Chief engrailed Argent a Galley her oars in action between two Hunting Horns stringed all of the Second (for Campbell of Belmont).</span></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Can you help?</span></b></h4><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I should also be most grateful if anyone can provide photographs or portraits of people whose names appear in bold above, and who are not already illustrated.&nbsp;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As always, any additions or corrections to the account given above will be gratefully received and incorporated.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Revision and acknowledgements</span></b></h4><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This post was first published 13 February 2019.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div></div></div>Nick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-1758624296473996662019-02-06T16:09:00.000+00:002019-02-13T14:31:27.094+00:00(363) Bannerman of Elsick and Crimonmogate, baronets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OYSg5tszne4/XFq6wkdMEAI/AAAAAAAAL84/1ZJASI01tSMwgUxQSs57pEq0Gy90BJDwACLcBGAs/s1600/Bannerman%2Bof%2BElsick.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="404" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OYSg5tszne4/XFq6wkdMEAI/AAAAAAAAL84/1ZJASI01tSMwgUxQSs57pEq0Gy90BJDwACLcBGAs/s200/Bannerman%2Bof%2BElsick.gif" width="166" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bannerman of Elsick</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">According to tradition, this family derived their name from the hereditary office of being standard-bearers to the Kings of Scotland, an office which they lost after being accused of cowardice on the battlefield by King Malcolm III (or King Alexander I - versions of the story vary) in the 11th century. However this sounds like a story based on the associations suggested by the name which both imparts a desirable antiquity to the lineage and explains away the awkward fact that another family - the Scrymgeours - held the office of standard-bearer from at least 1384. The first Bannerman of whom any authentic historical record is known was in fact Donald Bannerman, one of the King David II's doctors in 1364, who had a grant of lands at Waterton (Aberdeens.) and elsewhere in 1368. His son, Alexander Bannerman (fl. 1387), had a charter of Elsick (Kincardines.) in 1387, and thereafter his descendants held both estates until Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1638), with whom the genealogy below begins, sold Waterton to the family of his first wife in 1611. Thereafter, the Bannermans were settled at Elsick only.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1638) was succeeded by his son Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1666), who was a constant supporter of the Royalist cause during the Civil War, and whose estates were sequestrated until 1652. Little is known about his part in the war, but his sufferings were sufficiently remembered for Charles II to grant his son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1711), a baronetcy in 1682. Sir Alexander's brother, George Bannerman (d. 1691) was an advocate, and was also rewarded by being made one of two solicitors to the King in 1683. The family were thus closely identified with the Stuart cause, and seem to have found it difficult to reconcile themselves to the removal of King James II and his replacement by King William III and Queen Mary II in 1688-89. Another brother, the Rev. Robert Bannerman (d. 1719), who was minister of Newton and Woomet, was swiftly deprived for refusing to pray for the new king, and was obliged to take up a new career as a merchant in Edinburgh. There seems little doubt that Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1742), 2nd bt. had Jacobite sympathies, but I have not found clear evidence that he took up arms during the 1715 rebellion. His brother Patrick Bannerman (1678-1733) was, however, more actively involved, being appointed Provost of Aberdeen in 1714 as part of a Jacobite <i>putsch</i>&nbsp;of the city council. In 1715 he welcomed the Pretender to Scotland and was knighted on that occasion, although his knighthood was not recognised outside Jacobite circles. Following the failure of the rebellion, he was removed from office in Aberdeen, but he seems to have continued to operate as a merchant in the city and it is not clear that he suffered any further penalty.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1747), 3rd bt., was active in the 1745 rebellion, when he raised around 160 men for the Jacobite army and fought at Culloden. He is said to have fled from the battle to Elsick, where he was surprised and nearly captured by Hanoverian troops sent to arrest him, but he managed to hide from them and escape to France, where he died the following year. In his absence, Sir Alexander was named in a bill of attainder, but he died before his estates could be seized. His property and his debts devolved upon his teenage son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (c.1731-73), 4th bt., who was eventually pressured into selling Elsick in about 1754, retreating to his mother's estate at East Harlsey in the North Riding of Yorkshire, where he died without surviving sons in 1773. His title then passed to his brother, Sir Edward Trotter Bannerman (d. 1796), 5th bt., who was a Major in the army until his retirement in 1780, and who was unmarried and without issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">On the death of Sir Edward in 1796, the baronetcy passed to his kinsman, Professor Sir Alexander Bannerman (1741-1813), 6th bt. who was a grandson of Patrick Bannerman, the Jacobite Provost of Aberdeen and thus a great-grandson of the 1st baronet. The 6th baronet was a doctor in Aberdeen, and from 1793 professor of medicine at the University there, but his father and grandfather had been prosperous wine merchants in the city. He came into modest landed property at Kirkhill through his mother's family in 1777, and for a time took the name Burnett in recognition of this inheritance, but he reverted to Bannerman on inheriting the baronetcy. His eldest son, Thomas Bannerman, went to work for a London merchant house trading with China and India, and died in China at the age of 21, so when the Professor died in 1813 his property devolved on his oldest surviving son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (1769-1840), 7th bt., who may have been a merchant in Aberdeen. He left a substantial estate, but had no children, and when he died he left a complex and unusual will dividing his property among his relatives, the interpretation of which occupied the lawyers for four years before a final decision was made by the Court of Session in 1844.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The heir to the 7th baronet's title was his younger brother, Sir Charles Bannerman (1782-1851), 8th bt., who was explicitly excluded from the 7th baronet's will on the grounds that he was already much richer than his brother. This seems to have been less the result of his mysterious early career as a 'manufacturer' in Aberdeen, than of his inheritance in 1820 of the Crimonmogate estate and personal property of his cousin Patrick Milne. At the time of his inheritance, Milne had recently commissioned plans from the leading local architect, Archibald Simpson, for the erection of a new house at Crimonmogate, and Bannerman decided to proceed with the scheme, building the house which exists in altered form today. His son, Sir Archibald Bannerman (1823-77), 9th bt. inherited the house and enlarged it by building an attic storey concealed within a mansard roof. He also bought back part of the Elsick estate in Kincardineshire, sold by the 4th baronet in 1754, and enlarged this house too. Ironically, Sir Archibald had no son to succeed him, so on his death the baronetcy and the estates were again separated - the title passing to his cousin, Sir George Bannerman (1827-1901), 10th bt., while the estate passed to his daughter, later the Countess of Southesk. Her descendant, the 4th Duke of Fife, owns Elsick today, but Crimonmogate was sold out of the family in 1996. The Bannerman baronetcy still exists, being now held by a descendant of the youngest brother of the 6th baronet.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Elsick House, Kincardineshire</span></b></h3><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M1zrcFkSw5M/XFRxTeJDyAI/AAAAAAAAL7o/FPa_AwXk9Ms2vYYLemOEaamA-I8TJmXgQCLcBGAs/s1600/Elsick%2BHouse%2B6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="640" height="310" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M1zrcFkSw5M/XFRxTeJDyAI/AAAAAAAAL7o/FPa_AwXk9Ms2vYYLemOEaamA-I8TJmXgQCLcBGAs/s640/Elsick%2BHouse%2B6.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Elsick House: the rear (south elevation) contains walling from the house of the Bannermans. <br />Image: Anne Burgess. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">Some rights reserved</a>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The site of a fortified house built for Bannermans after they acquired the land in 1387, and perhaps altered or rebuilt after this became their sole estate in 1611. Only the thick masonry of the south wall and a resited 17th century doorway survive from this building, which was otherwise entirely rebuilt after a fire in 1754. The present house is a long low two-storeyed building consisting of the house of 1754 and a late 19th century cross-wing with single-storey canted bays and dormer windows breaking through the eaves line.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The pedimented porch was built by Walker &amp; Duncan in 1937.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The house was restored and extended to the west by Thomson, Taylor, Craig and Donald in 1968-74, and is now marketed as a wedding venue.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5CELWFogS5g/XFRzaKK8JxI/AAAAAAAAL78/-ihHYjVJo38_YFpruyLgHVyp4PX3gyXZACLcBGAs/s1600/Elsick%2BHouse%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5CELWFogS5g/XFRzaKK8JxI/AAAAAAAAL78/-ihHYjVJo38_YFpruyLgHVyp4PX3gyXZACLcBGAs/s640/Elsick%2BHouse%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Elsick House: the house as rebuilt in 1754, with the porch added in 1937 and the late 19th century east wing on the left. Image: Elsick House.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1638); to son, Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1666); to son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1711), 1st bt; to son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1742), 2nd bt.; to Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1747), 3rd bt.; to son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (c.1731-73), 4th bt. who sold 1754 to Master &amp; Brethren of Aberdeen Guild Hospital...James Monson, who sold 1775... sold to Sir Alexander Bannerman (1823-77), 9th bt.; to daughter, Ethel Mary Elizabeth (d. 1947), wife of Charles Noel Carnegie (1854-1941), 10th Earl of Southesk; to son, Charles Alexander Carnegie (1893-1992), 11th Earl of Southesk; to son, James George Alexander Bannerman Carnegie (1929-2015), 3rd Duke of Fife; to son, David Charles Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Crimonmogate House, Lonmay, Aberdeenshire</b></span></h3><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">A Greek Revival house designed by Archibald Simpson for Patrick Milne (d. 1820), who made a fortune as a merchant trading with India and China, but Milne died before work began and it was built for his heir, Sir Charles Bannerman, 8th bt. It replaced an earlier three bay, three storey house of c.1760, parts of which are perhaps incorporated at the rear of the building.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LHq3hqBC614/XFXEgg9SLqI/AAAAAAAAL8U/Xeb7aaAjzbwu7okNOBGFb-OfVG6mxMlRQCLcBGAs/s1600/Crimonmogate%2BHouse%2B005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1600" height="388" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LHq3hqBC614/XFXEgg9SLqI/AAAAAAAAL8U/Xeb7aaAjzbwu7okNOBGFb-OfVG6mxMlRQCLcBGAs/s640/Crimonmogate%2BHouse%2B005.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Crimonmogate House: an early photograph by Sir Alexander Bannerman, showing the house as first built.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The south-facing entrance front consists of a massive Greek Doric hexastyle portico projecting between two-storey end bays, executed in Kemnay granite. The hardness of this stone encouraged the architect to rely for his effect on the proportions of the design and the boldness of the forms, for there is almost no superficial decoration: the columns are unfluted, the entablature has no ornament, and the pediment has no sculpture. Under the portico, the central doorway and flanking windows have no architraves. The source of the design is thought to be Sir Robert Smirke's County Buildings, Perth, built in 1815-19, where there is a similar portico, originally carved for Broomhall (Fife). The six bay side elevations of the house are even plainer than the entrance front: the east side, behind which lie the principal reception rooms, is enlivened by a central bow, but the west side has a less successful two-bay projecting centre rising to a blank panel above the parapet. At the rear, there is an open service court.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IK2q5IjgS2Y/XFXE4bMRUHI/AAAAAAAAL8c/Qx0F-2oBUZ8eCFGzhnfszuvwLRPTE83EACLcBGAs/s1600/Crimonmogate%2BHouse%2B1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IK2q5IjgS2Y/XFXE4bMRUHI/AAAAAAAAL8c/Qx0F-2oBUZ8eCFGzhnfszuvwLRPTE83EACLcBGAs/s640/Crimonmogate%2BHouse%2B1.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">Crimonmogate House: the entrance front as altered in 1864. Photographed in 2013 by Sagaciousphil. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Some rights reserved</a>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The roofs were originally shallow-pitched with low coped chimneystacks, but were replaced in 1864 with mansard roofs with richly detailed round-headed dormers that are uncomfortably juxtaposed with the spareness and horizontality of the original design. At the same time as the roofs were altered, the house was extended to the north to provide space for a new dining room-cum-ballroom and additional service accommodation.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Inside, the planning of the house is elegantly simple. The portico leads into a grand double-height entrance hall in the form of a cube, with the walls articulated by fluted pilasters that have only vestigial capitals, and a coffered ceiling with a shallow central cupola. This opens on the east and west sides into corridors which provide access respectively to the principal reception rooms and the private apartments. The reception rooms were originally a drawing room, morning room (behind the bow) and dining room, but after the additions of 1864 the original dining room was refurnished as a library. A large billiard room lay immediately behind the hall. The main stair, which is squeezed into a modest space, has very fine cast iron balusters.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The building programme continued after 1825 with the estate buildings. The octagonal dovecote, and the seven bay, one and a half storey stable block to the west, are survivals from the mid 18th century house, but the stables were remodelled and extended to the east by Simpson, c.1825. One of the first things to be built was the chunky obelisk east of the house, which commemorates Patrick Milne and was designed c.1821. Also by Simpson are the game larder, laundry, octagonal dairy, corn mill (and mill house), a bridge over the Logie Burn, and the two gate lodges, to the west and south-east of the house. The walled garden, south-west of the house, was not completed until about 1840.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The house fell into decay during the 20th century and was restored for Christopher Monckton after he bought it in 1996, with further work being done by the current owners. The house was operated for some years as a wedding and events venue, but this use has now ceased. It appears that some of the estate buildings are being converted into an hotel and restaurant.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>Descent: John Hay (d. 1704), 12th Earl of Erroll; to son, Charles Hay (d. 1717), 13th Earl of Erroll; to sister, Mary Hay, 14th Countess of Erroll, who sold in 1730s to Abernethy family; sold to Alexander Milne, Aberdeen merchant; to son, Patrick Milne (d. 1820); to first cousin once removed, Sir Charles Bannerman (1782-1851), 8th bt.; to son, Sir Alexander Bannerman (1823-77), 9th bt.; to daughter,&nbsp;</i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Ethel Mary Elizabeth (c.1869-1947), later the wife of Charles Noel Carnegie (1854-1941), 10th Earl of Southesk; to younger son, Cmdr. the Hon. Alexander Carnegie (1894-1989); to son, Maj. Raymond Alexander Carnegie (1920-99), second husband of Diana Hay (1926-78), 23rd Countess of Erroll; gifted to son</i><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the Hon. Jocelyn Jacek Alexander Bannerman Carnegie (b. 1966), who sold 1996 to Christopher Monckton; sold 2001 to William Stanhope (b. 1967), Viscount Petersham and his wife,&nbsp;</span></i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Candida Bond</span></i><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span></i><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Bannerman family of Elsick, baronets</span></b></h3><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, Alexander (d. by 1638). </b>Only recorded son of George Bannerman (d. c.1608) of Waterton and his wife Elizabeth, apparently the daughter of John Johnstone of Caskieben. He married 1st,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Margaret, daughter of William Forbes of Tolquhoun and 2nd, Marjory*, daughter of Sir John Leslie of Wardis, 2nd bt., and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1.1) Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1666) (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited the Elsick estate from his father c.1608. In 1611 he was styled 'late of Wattertoun and now of Elsick'.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died in or before 1638. His first wife's date of death is unknown. His widow married 2nd, Sir John Fletcher, advocate of New Cranston; her date of death is unknown.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">*Some accounts give her name as Elizabeth.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, Alexander (d. c.1666). </b>Only recorded child of Alexander Bannerman and his first wife, Margaret, daughter of William Forbes of Tolquhon. He fought a duel with, and wounded, his cousin Sir John Gordon of Haddo in 1644.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">His estates were sequestrated following the Civil War but the sequestration was discharged in 1652.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He married, May 1633, Marion, eldest daughter of Alexander Hamilton of East Binning (West Lothian) and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1711), 1st bt. (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Rev. Robert Bannerman (d. 1719); educated at Edinburgh University (MA 1675); minister of Newton and Woomet (deprived for refusing to pray for King William and Queen Mary, 1689); afterwards a merchant in Edinburgh by 1694; burgess of Edinburgh in right of his wife, 1697; married Margaret (d. 1725), daughter of Sir Mark Carse of Cockpen, and had issue five sons and one daughter; died 24 January 1719;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) George Bannerman (d. 1691), of Dunboig (which he acquired in 1687); educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen (MA 1659); admitted advocate, 1671 and re-admitted 1676;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">chamberlain of Fife, 1682-91;</span><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">solicitor to King Charles II, 1683-85; married Elizabeth, daughter of Laurence Oliphant of Bachilton (Perths.) (who m2, Henry Balfour of Dunboig), but had no issue; buried at Greyfriars, Edinburgh, 20 March 1690/1;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) William Bannerman (fl. 1661); apprenticed to George Jaffray of Edinburgh, merchant, 1661;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) John Bannerman (fl. 1715); apprenticed to William Patton of Edinburgh, merchant, 10 March 1669, but was afterwards an officer in the Earl of Orkney's royal regiment of foot (Capt.);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Mary Bannerman; married George Leslie (fl. 1666) of Findrassie, but had no issue;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(7) Margaret Bannerman; married Sir Alexander Keith (d. c.1680), 2nd bt., of Ludquhairn, and had issue one son and one daughter;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(8) Elizabeth Bannerman; married, 11 September 1670 at Edinburgh, James Reid of Northbrae, son of William Reid, bailie of Edinburgh, and had issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited the Elsick estate from his father and had a charter of Pitmedden (Kincardines.) in 1641. His estates were sequestrated following the Civil War but the sequestration was discharged in 1652.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died about 1666. His wife's date of death is unknown.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, Sir Alexander (d. 1711), 1st bt. </b>Eldest son of Alexander Bannerman (d. c.1666) and his wife Marion, eldest daughter of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Alexander Hamilton of East Binning (West Lothian). He registered his coat of arms with Lord Lyon about 1672, and added supporters in 1692, having been&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">created a baronet, 28 December 1682, in recognition of "his constant loyalty during the rebellion and the heavy calamities he [but really his father] suffered on that account". He</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">married, 1670 (contract 15 February), Margaret, second daughter of Patrick Scott of Thirlestaine (Selkirks.), and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1742), 2nd bt. (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) George Bannerman (fl. 1692); attended Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1688-92; died unmarried;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Sir Patrick Bannerman (1678-1733), kt. (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Isabella Bannerman (fl. 1692); married, 1692 (contract 3 November), John Scott MP (1671-1732) of Logie and Castlested (Angus), son of James Scott of Logie, and had issue three sons and six daughters.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited the Elsick estate from his father in about 1666 and Dunboig from his younger brother in 1691. He sold Dunboig to Maj. Henry Balfour of Starr, 1694.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 11 April 1711. His wife was living in 1691.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, Sir Alexander (d. 1742), 2nd bt. </b>Eldest son of Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1711), 1st bt., and his wife&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Margaret, second daughter of Patrick Scott of Thirlestaine, born c.1670-75. Educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1688-92. He succeeded his father as 2nd bt., 11 April 1711, but accumulated enormous debts (totalling £35,413 by 1737). He married, 1699, Isabella (d. 1743), daughter of Sir Donald Macdonald of Sleat, 3rd bt. and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1747), 3rd bt.;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Isabel Bannerman (d. 1777); married John Hope (1707-80) of Edinburgh, merchant, second son of Sir Thomas Hope, 8th bt. of Craighall, and had issue five sons and three daughters; died 24 April 1777;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Margaret Bannerman; married, before 1737, Peter? Turnbull of Stracathro (Angus);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) A daughter.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited the Elsick estate from his father in 1711.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 31 January 1742. His widow died 31 August 1743.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, Sir Alexander (d. 1747), 3rd bt. </b>Only son of Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1742), 2nd bt., and his wife Isabella,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">daughter of Sir Donald Macdonald of Sleat, 3rd bt, born c.1700-05.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp; He succeeded his father as 3rd bt., 31 January 1742. He pledged his support for the 1745 uprising soon after the battle of Prestonpans, and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of the Mearns, 1745-46; he then led a small regiment of 160 men to join the Jacobite army at Stirling, and fought in the second line of battle at Culloden, 1746, after which he fled to France; he was one of the forty-four Jacobite commanders named in a bill of attainder, 1746. He married, 5 September 1728 at Kirby Sigston (Yorks NR), Isabella Trotter, heiress of the Trotter family of East Harlsey&nbsp;(Yorks NR), and had issue*:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Alexander Bannerman (b. &amp; d. 1729), baptised at East Harlsey, 19 August 1729; died in infancy and was buried at East Harlsey, 19 December 1729;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Eleanor Bannerman (b. 1730), baptised at Northallerton, 2 August 1730; died in infancy and was buried at Kirby Sigston, August 1730;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Sir Alexander Bannerman (c.1731-73), 4th bt. (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Sir Edward Trotter Bannerman (d. 1796), 5th bt. (<i>q.v.</i>).</span><br /><i style="font-family: georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">He inherited the Elsick estate from his father in 1742.</i><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died in Paris in about June 1747. His wife's date of death is unknown.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: x-small;">* Some sources record an additional daughter, Isabella, but I have found no clear evidence of her existence.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, Sir Alexander (c.1731-73), 4th bt. </b>Elder son of Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1747), 3rd bt. and his wife Isabella, heiress of the Trotter family of East Harlsey (Yorks NR), born about 1731. He succeeded his father as 4th baronet, about June 1747. He married, 8 May 1764 at Brompton by Northallerton (Yorks NR), Elizabeth (1740-1812), daughter of Marmaduke Sedgewick, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Alexander Bannerman (b. &amp; d. 1765), baptised at East Harlsey, 24 May 1765; died in infancy and was buried at East Harlsey, 27 May 1765;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Elizabeth Bannerman (1766-1844), of Strachan, born 7 April and baptised at East Harlsey, 24 April 1766; married, 8 October 1782 at East Harlsey, Sir Alexander Burnett (later Ramsay) (1757-1810) of Balmain, 1st bt., advocate, son of Sir Thomas Burnett of Leys, 6th bt., and had issue nine sons and two daughters; died at Edinburgh, 11 December 1844;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Mary Bannerman (1767-1838), born 30 August and baptised at East Harlsey, 1 September 1767; married, 27 January 1784 at Edinburgh, Francis Russell (d. 1806) of Blackhall (Kincardines.), advocate, and had issue one daughter; died at Finzean (the seat of her son-in-law), Kincardine O'Neil (Aberdeens.), 1 February 1838.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He inherited the Elsick estate from his father in 1747, but after being involved in lawsuits and threatened&nbsp; with forfeiture following the 1745 rebellion, he sold it to Aberdeen Corporation.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 13 June, and was buried at East Harlsey near Northallerton (Yorks NR), 17 June 1773. His widow died at Montrose, 16 May 1812.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, Sir Edward Trotter (d. 1796), 5th bt. </b>Younger&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">son of Sir Alexander Bannerman (d. 1747), 3rd bt. and his wife Isabella, heiress of the Trotter family of East Harlsey&nbsp;(Yorks NR). An officer in the army (Capt-Lt.; Capt., 1764; Major 1778; retired 1780). He succeeded his brother as 5th baronet, 13 June 1773. He was unmarried and without issue.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died at Kincardine Lodge, 1 October 1796, when the baronetcy passed to his second cousin, Sir Alexander Bannerman, 6th bt; his will was confirmed 28 January 1797.&nbsp;</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, (Sir) Patrick (1678-1733), kt. </b>Third son of Sir Alexander Bannerman&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(d. 1711), 1st bt., and his wife&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Margaret, second daughter of Patrick Scott of Thirlestaine, born 23 February 1678. Apprenticed to John Hay of Edinburgh, merchant, 31 January 1694. Merchant in Aberdeen; Provost of Aberdeen, 1714-15. A Jacobite in politics, he welcomed the Old Pretender on his landing in Scotland and was knighted by him. He was subsequently arrested by the Hanoverian authorities and imprisoned at Carlisle, but escaped to France, although he seems to have returned within a few months. He married, 18 April 1714 at Edinburgh, Margaret (1683-1750), daughter of Sir Charles Maitland of Pitrichie (Aberdeens.), and had issue:<br />(1) Alexander Bannerman (1715-82) (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Jean Bannerman (1718-88?), baptised at Aberdeen, 19 March 1718; declared to have been insane since 1746 and placed in the care of her elder brother, 3 July 1755; probably the lady of this name buried at New Machar, 6 May 1788;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Charles Bannerman (1719-46), baptised at Aberdeen, 10 October 1719; apprenticed to George Chalmers WS; admitted to Society of Writers to the Signet, 5 July 1742; died unmarried and without issue at Edinburgh, 6 February 1746; will confirmed 17 July 1750;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Clementina Bannerman (1721-87), baptised at Aberdeen, 5 September 1721; died unmarried, June 1787, and was buried at St Nicholas, Aberdeen;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Margaret Bannerman (1723-88), baptised at Aberdeen, 24 August 1723; married, 1752 (contract 7 July) Alexander Milne of Aberdeen, merchant, and had issue (including Patrick Milne (d. c.1820), who bequeathed Crimonmogate to Sir Charles Bannerman, 8th bt.); died April 1788 and was buried at St Nicholas, Aberdeen.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived in Aberdeen.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died 4 June 1733. His widow died at Aberdeen, 31 October 1750 and was buried at St Nicholas, Aberdeen.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman, Alexander (1715-82). </b>Elder son of (Sir) Patrick Bannerman (d. 1733) and his wife&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Margaret, daughter of Sir Charles Maitland of Pitrichie,</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp;baptised at Aberdeen, 13 September 1715. A wine and spirit merchant in Aberdeen. He married, 1737, Margaret (1719-96), eldest daughter and heir of Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, and had issue:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Patrick Bannerman (b. 1739), baptised at Aberdeen, 9 April 1739; probably died young;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Sir Alexander Bannerman (later Burnett then Bannerman) (1741-1813), 6th bt. (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Thomas Bannerman (1743-1820),&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">baptised at Aberdeen, 19 May 1743; successful wine merchant in Aberdeen; a director of the Aberdeen Banking Company; married, 29 April 1779 at Aberdeen, Jean (1753-1817), daughter of George Simpson of Hazelhead and had issue five sons (from whom descended the 10th and 11th baronets) and one daughter; died 4 January 1820; will confirmed 8 February 1821;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Mordaunt Bannerman (1746-66?), baptised at Aberdeen, 1 May 1746; possibly the person of this name who was buried at Minster (Kent), 9 October 1766;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(5) Anne Bannerman (1747-72), born 14 November and baptised at Aberdeen, 23 November 1747; married, 1767, Alexander Garioch (1742-1802) of Aberdeen and had issue one son and one daughter; died August 1772;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(6) Charles Bannerman (1750-1813), baptised at Aberdeen, 7 June 1850; educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen (MA 1767); apprenticed to William Thom; admitted advocate, 1776; practiced in Aberdeen in partnership with James Blaikie (Bannerman &amp; Blaikie); joint Commissary Depute; director of Aberdeen Banking Company; guild burgess of Aberdeen from 1788; one of the assessors to the Rector of King's College, Aberdeen, 1798-1806; an officer in Royal Aberdeen Volunteers (Maj., 1806); a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen, 1776-1813 (Treasurer, 1784-86; President, 1798-1800); married, 6 January 1785 at Aberdeen, Margaret (d. 1836), daughter of Patrick Wilson, formerly collector of customs on the island of St. Kitts, and had issue six sons (from whom descend the 12th and later baronets) and six daughters; died at Aberdeen, 24 September 1813.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><i>He lived at Frendraught and later in Aberdeen. In 1748 he inherited part of the considerable property of Dr Charles Maitland of Aberdeen, physician.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">He died in Aberdeeen, 27 June 1782. His widow died 31 August 1796.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Bannerman (later Burnett then Bannerman), Sir Alexander (1741-1813), 6th bt. </b>Eldest son of Alexander Bannerman (1715-82) and his wife Margaret, daughter of Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, baptised at Aberdeen, 22 December 1741. Educated at Aberdeen University (MD). A well-known physician in Aberdeen; Professor of Medicine at the University of Aberdeen, 1793-1813 (jointly with his third son from 1797). He took the name Burnett in lieu of Bannerman on inheriting the property of his mother's family at Kirkhill in 1777, but reverted to Bannerman in 1796 on inheriting the family baronetcy from his second cousin, 1 October 1796. He married, 25 January 1768 at Aberdeen, Mary, daughter of James Gordon of Banchory and sister and heir of Thomas Gordon of Heathcot, and had issue including:</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(1) Thomas Bannerman (1768-89), baptised at Aberdeen, 19 November 1768; merchant in China; died unmarried in China in or about December 1789; will proved in PCC, 27 February 1793;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(2) Sir Alexander Bannerman (1769-1840), 7th bt. (<i>q.v.</i>);</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(3) Maria Bannerman (1771-1826), baptised at Aberdeen, 18 March 1771; married, 18 June 1793 at Aberdeen, William Keith-Falconer (1766-1812), 6th Earl of Kintore, and had issue two sons and one daughter; died in Bath (Somerset), 30 June 1826 and was buried in Bath Abbey, 13 July 1826;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(4) Ann (aka Margaret?)